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which organic is not so organic?

Hi, This article makes me mad...now I have to question and worry about how organic my organic food is?
We are looking at joining a farming coop this summer. We want to become more of locovores! Big business is killing us, literally, with the bad food and preservatives to make an extra dollar.


I never shop at WalMart, even though now they are pretending to go green. Oh pahleese, people, don't try to fake me out to get me into your dirty store and buy things made in China or from vendors you raked over the coals and they don't make ten cents on so your family can occupy five of the top eleven spots of America's top earners! (how's that for a run on sentence?)


And, I am shocked at horizon, with their pretty packaging and cute cow on the their box! Ok, that's way naive of me, but...their milk is usually the most expensive in the milk case! I guess it's because they have to keep their prices high at the grocery store (and target, too, 3.99 a half gallon!) to make back the profits lost by hanging around the gutter with WalMart!


Ok, I am done for now. Just trying to inform consumers of what we are really buying. I think we should all go out and get our own cows and chickens! Then we would know, for sure, what we are eating! One of my neighbors has a rooster you can hear him...perhaps they are onto something. :)

See also: organic, milk, walmart, faux, phoney
Written by Debbie
Posted on 04/15/2008
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Hi Debbie,

I am glad you are raising this issue about bad food. Sometimes I go to a grocery store and I even don't know what to buy...I read the labels and I am discouraged.

In my neighborhood there is a very successful Food Coop and they have amazing products and reasonable price. I really think to join even it involves working 3 hours every 4 weeks.

I teach my kids that in most cookies there is yucky stuff so I try to educate them to stay away from junk. The problem is that even when you are careful you still feel you are getting some bad product.

In NYC you are allowed to have chickens but not rooster!

Vero
posted by Vero on 04/15/2008
Thank you for sharing Debbie! Very well said!

Hayley
posted by Hayley on 04/15/2008
Thanks for sharing that link, I had read something similar on another site too. I try to buy certified organic foods not USDA organic. The USDA doesn't seem to have good standards when it comes to organic, they still allow chemicals and over processing.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/04/01/which-giant-corporation-owns-your-favorite-organic-food-brand.aspx
posted by sillymom on 04/15/2008
  
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