Is organic food just a scam? - Page 2

Pie'n'mash · 01-27-2008, 12:32 PM

Organic food has many additives in it. I read this on a scientific journal last week. If I find the link again I'll post it.

poppy · 01-27-2008, 01:33 PM

Not the fruit and veg you buy in markets. Things can start life as organic and then get ruined by being processed.
Answer, if you want to eat organic buy fresh from folk you trust to grow there stuff the right way. Don't buy imported or processed food as you can not be sure.
If you don't want to eat organic it doesn't matter one way or the other.

**Will** · 01-27-2008, 02:38 PM

From what I remember in the news a whileback as well, there's hardly any guidelines to dictate what could as organic food or not. So companies are pushing the definition of what constitutes organic food, pretty much to the limits and beyond.

poppy · 01-27-2008, 04:01 PM

You are absolutely right Will. I never buy organic in supermarkets, wouldn't trust them as far as etc; farm shops or markets that sell there own and then only the ones you trust.
And if it is not in season it is suspect, you can't ever be sure of imported organics

**Will** · 01-27-2008, 05:36 PM

You know what the worst part is as well, many farm shops have been begging for customers for years. Now this organic fad has come along people are well into the idea, but they still don't buy from the farm shops, they buy from the supermarket.

Hopefully they will soon realise that all they need to do is put the word 'Organic' on their little painted roadside signs. When I lived in the midlands, I regualrly bought from a nearby farmshop, was probably one of the few that did.

Wouldn't it be nice to see a resurgence of the local food stores?

easyg · 01-27-2008, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by poppy

Not the fruit and veg you buy in markets. Things can start life as organic and then get ruined by being processed.
Answer, if you want to eat organic buy fresh from folk you trust to grow there stuff the right way. Don't buy imported or processed food as you can not be sure.
If you don't want to eat organic it doesn't matter one way or the other.

The only way of ensuring that your veggies are organic is, get an allottment and grow your own. Supermarket organic is a bucket of S**T

Pie'n'mash · 01-27-2008, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by easyg

The only way of ensuring that your veggies are organic is, get an allottment and grow your own. Supermarket organic is a bucket of S**T

I have a lovely old man that delivers me organic potatoes, leeks, green beans and rhubarb from his allotment. Very yummy. Massive too!

No charge whatsoever.