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[minervasolo]

Organic food equal to non-organic

Part of me just thinks the article has missed the point. Organic food is better for the enviroment. I don't really care if it's better for me. And the picture of the carrots serves only to remind me that you can taste the difference. Not in everything, obviously, and probably varying on exactly how the non-organic veg was produced; the extent to which it's been manipulated. It depends on which way you switch, how long you've been eating the food you do, and so on. I don't have a particularly good sense of taste (or anything else), so others might notice the difference more than I do. But.

I remember, when I was maybe thirteen or fourteen, coming home from school one day and complaining that the carrots in my packed lunch had tasted funny. Watery. I thought maybe they'd gone off, or something. Turned out we hadn't been able to get organic carrots that week, and these were Sainsbury's usual. They tasted watery because to get them the size they were (about three times the size of the organic carrots) they were, unsurpisingly, mostly made up of water.

I've siwtched back and forth since coming to uni, depending on how well off I am. At the moment, though, I'm leaning back to organic only, even if it is far more expensive. I've not noticed a huge difference, but I suspect after a year or so of organic I'd be reluctant to switch back again. I still find non-organic carrots watery and flavourless but I was willing to choos quantity over quality.

But, yeah. My point is Organic food is better for the enviroment. That's why I prefer to buy it. Not because I think it's healthier, because, to be honest, that never really occured to me.

Comments

[lieutenanth.livejournal.com]

well, it depends whether its better for the environment. if the carrots are from south africa, as they often seem to be, or if they are grown out of season in british hothouses (dunno if that applies to carrots but it certainly does to tomatoes), then they are just as bad, if not worse, than the regular kind. The best thing you can do is buy ultralocal seasonal produce, which means having to compromise on whether you can have carrots at all. that's my weakness - i'll buy fresh oranic local if it's available, but if not i'll take what's there. though i do at least attempt to confine my buying to europe.