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Question: For all the people who eats organic food, please answer this?
I know that organic food is expensive due to the highest quality of it’s products and by not using any chemical pesticides they usually possess in other kind of foods.
How much of the money you spend in all kind of foods you dedicate to “organic foods” only?
Also, where do you live?
Thanks
Answer:
Answer by ♣steadybeau♥
I don’t eat that stuff. It is WAY too expensive and a lot of it tastes horrible. And why is it that the same people who eat healthy food and criticize those who eat junk food are the SAME ones who are just as overweight as anyone else? I know LOTS of fat earthy-granola-type people!
Question: Are the bones in your chicken real?!? did you know this?
They (USDA) have engineered/found a way to grow a chicken (that usually takes up to 8 months to mature) from the egg to a full grown one in 49 days!!! so they said.. the bones in the chicken we eat now a days aren’t even really bone at all because the body grows too fast for the bones to catch up and actually form..
So i watched the movie Food, Inc and boy was I disturbed! (Do watch this movie! Must See)
they have THOUSANDS of cows, and pigs and chickens, etc in these “breeding farms.”
These animals can’t move around.. the fully grown chickens can not even spread their wings, walk a few steps without falling over or let alone stand on their own two feet..
and the cows and pigs are standing in their own sh!&%t up to their ankles.. so when they go to slaughter them.. they just scoop them up by a limb and cut them right open.. animal sh!%t, guts and blood running down and all.. it’s disgusting! The average hamburger contains meat from nearly 100 cattle (food poising anyone??)
In 1970 A total of 168 pounds (around 76 kilograms) of meat PER person was consumed per year.
Today, a roughly 200-260 pounds per person are consumed…
By 2050, it’s expected meat demand will be twice the 229 million tonnes the world ate in 2000
And McDonald’s is open 24 hours (lol)…
What else do you know and are you Going Organic?!?
*and your right.. independent farmers do, do it the right way and my hats go off to them.. I’m talking about Corporate America’s Restaurants and the cattle and animal farms that are everywhere..
Answer:
Answer by lilabner
You are living in the Twilight Zone. A chicken after taking 21 days to hatch is ready to put in the freezer in 3 months max and pardon me the bones are real. Chill out.
Question: Anyone else joining in on this “organic food” craze?
Answer:
Answer by sway_ii
I go for some organic veggies, i think they taste better and for some strange reason the stay fresh longer in my fridge.
Question: How Do You Feel About This?
Many campus coffee shops boast that they “proudly serve fair trade coffee,” but does the fair trade movement actually make a difference in the lives of the poor and disadvantaged? Is free trade also fair trade?
Answer:
Answer by Alexander R
lol.. this is the same as asking whether electric cars really save all that much energy considering the manufacturing resources they cost.
Whether windmills are beneficial for the same reason.
Whether organic and free range products are really any healthier or treated any better (respectively)
Whether locally grown produce requiring extra resources to grow in a foreign climate is any better than using gas to ship the produce from their native countries.
Unfortunately, we as society sucker ourselves into convenient ways of doing noble things. And companies often thrive on this need to “conveniently do a good thing” by marketing their products as more socially minded than they really are.
Often companies will implement superficial ‘Green’ policies just to boost their credibility and sales.
I’m not informed enough on fair trade coffee to give a definitive answer, but I imagine a lot of the exploited workers in colombia aren’t getting their fair share of fair trade.
And exploitation is going to keep happening for as long as the lowest price tag is the main prerogative in consumer culture. Which unfortunately, it almost always will be.