Do you buy organic?

[Terxpahseyton]

Well?
I often buy my vegetables organic if available by now because I seem to be have sensitive taste butts and inorganic vegetables always carry the risk of tasting horrible in my mouth.
A prime example it cucumber. I often had cheap cucumber which tasted like crap (though only I seemed to notice) while the cucumber a friend of my family produces himself always tastes wonderful. Organic cucumber so far always tasted at least okay to me.
I don't make a point of buying organic with anything else, but may do when the opportunity provides itself.

 

[downtown]

I don't go out of my way to do it, but when it's an option, I typically will.

 

[El_Machinae]

I don't. Mainly because I don't really know what the label means, it quickly got too confusing and I just didn't end up caring enough. I buy a ridiculous amount of fruits and veggies relative to the rest of my diet (I shoot for 10 servings a day), and so I'm not alllll that worried. I think the net benefit of high-veggies vs. cans of Kraft Dinner will be of net benefit.

 

[Antilogic]

Home-grown food taste pretty good, but beyond that I don't make a particular effort to buy everything super-organic.

 

[Dralix]

I buy most of my produce at the local farmers market.

 

[bhsup]

Nope. I try to make sure my chicken, milk, etc hasn't come from animals fed hormones and other stuff, but that's about it. Beyond that, I couldn't care less.

 

[civvver]

Fresh fruits and veggies are always preferable like from a farmers market, but organic doesn't mean jack. There are many tiers of organic labeling, I just see most of them as a scam to charge more for the same product. Like for example when specific milk advertises as organic and hormone free. In the US all milk is hormone free (I think by law) whether it's organic or not. Multiple doctors have told me it makes no difference. Grass fed beef is another fad, I think it has less marbling and tastes worse imo. It might be better for you because it's leaner, but I doubt it's cus the cow ate grass.

 

[warpus]

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. My shopping habits can be in some ways predictable but in many probably not. Unless you're the NSA or a google advertising bot or whatever, then you could probably tell me whether I buy organic or not.

 

[Perfection]

I always buy organic hemlock.

 

[Zelig]

In the US all milk is hormone free (I think by law) whether it's organic or not.

Eh, no, the US is basically the only first-world country where milk isn't free of bovine somatotropin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_somatotropin

 

[Arwon]

taste butts lol

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Now I had to laugh myself. Thanks for spotting.

 

[plarq]

Eh, no, the US is basically the only first-world country where milk isn't free of bovine somatotropin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_somatotropin

Although the USDA allows rBST and forces every milk producer say "Test shows no difference between rBST cow produced milk and non-rBST cow milk", even the cheapest brand of milk has "no rBST" on it.

 

[Farm Boy]

"Organic" as the word is being used in this context is typically a hedonistic vanity purchase with zero actual health benefits. I actively avoid the label between competing goods if I can. That said, I love me a local farmer's market when they're open.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

No pesticides is a hedonistic vanity?

 

[Zelig]

No pesticides is a hedonistic vanity?

Well American conservatives actively avoid products that are more energy efficient even if the products are less expensive: http://arstechnica.com/science/2013...vironment-conservatives-dont-like-conserving/

 

[Adjuvant]

No pesticides is a hedonistic vanity?

Wait. Why do you think "organic" means "pesticide-free"?

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Because that is one of the requirements, at least over here. Though that is not totally correct I guess. "No conventional pesticide" says wikipedia.
Anyway, studies have so far backed up that organic food way less often carries residuals of pesticides (though it happens). Animals also live under better conditions and agriculture tends to be done in a more sustainable way.
You also got less Antibiotics.

 

[Adjuvant]

Organic farms endeavor to not use synthetic pesticides. I don't think there's such a thing as a "pesticide free" farm. Your garden, maybe, but there won't be enough yield to fill a supermarket shelf from that.

Residuals of pesticides has to be a myth, too, or we'd have billions (more) of people dropping from cancer. DDT went out of style 50 years ago. Synthetic pesticides today hurt you and me less than dental x-rays or flying in a plane, or certainly 30 minutes outside on a 90 degree day.

Antibiotics? There's a case to be made that is a health concern. The jury is still out on that one.

edit: That's meat and poultry, though. Not produce.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I don't know how much modern pesticides hurt people, but from all I gathered the issue deserves more than a mere shrug.