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Did your Shopping List Kill a Songbird?
This New York Times article is talking about pesticides and organics. Mostly I think it's frustrating when people push eating organic. I have a hard time buying something 3x as expensive with my already astronomical food bill when I see something super cheap next to it (and I shop at ALDI, for goodness sake!) There's also the question of what connotes organic (produce grown in a field that still has pesticides in it from last year?)
At any rate, my real point is how we are admonished in the Word of Wisdom to eat "Every herb in the season thereof, and every fruit in the season thereof" (D&C 89:11). I guess if we were doing this our food bill could be less (things "in season" are cheaper, right?) and we would be promoting local farming, and we would not be contributing (as much) to the problem mentioned in the article.
It'd be great if we could all afford to eat organic (Travis made the comment that it is another way we are seeing a great divide between the poor and upper class- two kinds of foods). If we can't? Well, there's always the options of canning, freezing, and just enjoying in the season of its namesake your summer squash!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
NYT and Word of Wisdom?
Posted by Irish Cream at 4/01/2008 02:07:00 PM
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Yes, I totally agree with you. I'm just not going to buy the organic apple for $2.99 lb(sometimes $4.99!) instead of the ones for .99 lb.! It does seem like a "trend" for companies to get the organic label & then be able to charge more.(some get the "rights" just by doing the very minimum required - which is not the point!)
I like what you say about local. Check out this link - and Dr. Mercola's comments after the article - it is kind of just what you are saying.
http://v.mercola.com/blogs/public_blog/Whole-Foods--The-Whole-Truth-23883.aspx
You know, this is kind of an interesting thing. I know people who are all about organic. I have a friend who is now a mother of two children and she thinks that BECAUSE her parents fed her organic food growing up, she is a weaker immune system. I thought that was very interesting. I had never heard someone talk about that before.
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