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Aqizzar

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The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« on: July 30, 2009, 05:02:32 am »
Do you buy "organic" meats and produce?  Do you consider the extra price a worthwhile trade-off for knowing that you're not eating steroids and pesticides?  Do you look down your nose at all those putrid slobs who cram alien flesh and withered vines down their diseased gullets?

Turns out, you were wrong wrong wrong!

The USDA "Organic" label was supposed to mean foods grown the old fashioned way, with none of that chemically induced growth crap and herbicides, and hopefully by way of that softer treatment will retain all the good stuff food is supposed to have.  Turns out, comprehensive studies have shown that "Organic" labeled food has no statistically significant greater amount of any real vitamins or nutrients than the normal stuff, and because agri-business lobbies have so thoroughly defanged the USDA inspectors board, foods can be treated with just about anything and still get the "Organic" label if you pay enough.

Like we cynics suspected, "Organic" doesn't really mean anything except paying twice as much for the same food.  So relax, health nuts, and get some Big Macs and Doritios.  'Cause you've really been eating them the whole time.
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Re: The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2009, 05:16:14 am »
Well poo.
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Re: The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2009, 05:42:38 am »
Just to clarify, this doesn't mean that no foods are unhealthy, and all dieticians are wrong.  It's just that the "organic" label means nothing (I'd rather get Free Range than organic eggs, for one thing).
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Re: The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2009, 05:47:05 am »
Pfft.
I just have my own cows.
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Re: The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2009, 05:47:18 am »
Its been like this for a long time really, at least from what I can tell in America. I doubt you'd get away with it here in the UK though, since we only like ever grow potatoes and cabbages.
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Re: The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2009, 05:50:04 am »
Nilocy, that's not true.  There are a lot of dirt farmers in the UK.
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Re: The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2009, 06:34:52 am »
Americans really have a food label that says "organic"?
Did the one who decided that know ANYTHING about chemistry?

Hint: I highly doubt there is any inorganic food that a human could eat.
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Re: The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2009, 06:37:29 am »
Quote from: Armok on July 30, 2009, 06:34:52 am
Americans really have a food label that says "organic"?
Did the one who decided that know ANYTHING about chemistry?

Hint: I highly doubt there is any inorganic food that a human could eat.
Organic = No synthetic additives.
 Because Americans are not dumb. We are just very, very talkative.

 And yes, there are a lot of issues with organic foods, from hurting the environment to this crap.
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Re: The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2009, 06:40:48 am »
I have a vegetable patch in my backyard and I think it taste better than store bought, but it just might be because I eat it sooner?

It's all in the mind.
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Re: The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2009, 06:41:28 am »
Well frikin duh.

I never trusted that crap from day one when they started popping up on the shelves.

If you want this so called 'organic' food. GROW A GARDEN.
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Re: The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2009, 06:43:37 am »
Extra vitamins/minerals/more healthy?

Thats a new one to me.

I thought the whole point was that you could eat a apple that didn't have it's skin sprayed in pesticides.

Just (past tense: to read) a news-article about it, apparently they didn't check for presticide levels.
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Re: The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2009, 06:46:06 am »
Quote from: SHAD0Wdump on July 30, 2009, 06:41:28 am
If you want this so called 'organic' food. GROW A GARDEN.
This.

I think some people may be surprised at how much food you can grow in a small garden ^_^ ((2mx1m))
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Re: The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2009, 07:00:51 am »
Quote from: SHAD0Wdump on July 30, 2009, 06:41:28 am
Well frikin duh.

I never trusted that crap from day one when they started popping up on the shelves.

If you want this so called 'organic' food. GROW A GARDEN.

This.
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Re: The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2009, 07:04:23 am »
Quote from: Armok on July 30, 2009, 06:34:52 am
Hint: I highly doubt there is any inorganic food that a human could eat.
Salt :P

Anyway, free-range eggs and meat taste significantly better, as do fruit and vegetables that haven't been treated with DDT and shit. A good way to recognize untreated fruit is to see how it looks - healthy fruit usually looks crappy.
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Re: The unhealthy cynics were right all along.
« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2009, 07:21:27 am »
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