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On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 06:32:18 +1100, Bruce >
wrote:

>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.

Right, the only one on the list was bread.