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Bruce[_28_]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:11:12 -0400, wrote:

>On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:11:15 +1100, Bruce >
>wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:59:06 -0400, wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:50:01 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>>>
>>>>Right. read the list. All that crap cannot be good for you long term.
>>>>I tray to avoid any pre-made crap for that reason. Most is overpowering
>>>>with salt too and devoid of the actual taste of the ingredients.
>>>
>>>I do buy bread but they make it on the premises at my supermarket. If
>>>you're not there before noon, it is all gone. I like their small flax
>>>bread, unsliced. So since that's the only thing on the list I buy,
>>>wonder what will get me??
>>>
>>>As for organic this 'n that, I buy regular. There may be genuine
>>>organic farmers but the mist from stuff sprayed on other fields hits
>>>theirs too. So you would need to examine the farm to see if it was
>>>really worth all that extra money.
>>
>>Doesn't eligibility for the "organic" label also take your neighbours
>>into account? Or I guess requirements differ per country.
>
>Not as far as I know, I believe its based on what you do with your
>land. I really don't know. I once shopped for the woman opposite me
>after she had a replacement shoulder, for about four weeks. I would
>get her list which was pretty similar to mine except all her
>veggies/fruit etc had to be organic and noticed she had to spend quite
>a bit more than me and that in the case of fruit, it looked pretty
>tacky by comparison to my sinful stuff

I've noticed that too. Scrawny but more expensive. But I also see more
and more products that are priced normally and look ok, but are
"organic". Maybe things are improving as the demand grows.

The article wasn't so much about organic, by the way, but about food
additives and processing. With certain products, you're eating a
science project, and not so much the product you think you're buying.
But my guess is that you don't buy many of those.