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I don't know why and have no good reason for having it but i do have a peeve when it comes to organic products. My sister told me she saw organic water. How the hell can water be organic?
I'm curious too. Is it the products, or do you just get tired of the buzzword?
As long as things are certified organic, I'm all for it. Like anything else, though, many 'organic' products are hardly organic. It's been co-opted by the marketing folks.
"Organic" water? What's water from the tap, inorganic?
It is purely over-the-top marketing excess. People who fall for this sort of nonsense are also easily convinced that lettuce labeled "natural" is better than that which is not.
It makes sense where there are clear cut standards involved. Rules for calling fruits and vegetables organic means not using things like oil based fertilizers and insecticides in their produciton. That is a fair choice to allow people to make.
Other terms, like "natural" have no government standards and can be used even on unnatural products without breaking the law.
You have to be a lawyer to be able to shop wisely in today's supermarkets.
That product that says "sugar free" has plenty of carbohydrates and fat to make up for the lack of sugar, and the "fat free" item has plenty of other bad stuff to repllace the fat, usually high fructose corn syrup. All the makers do is pull out one ingredient and put in another bad one to make up for it.
That's what happens when the Corporations make the rules for the USDA which enforces labelling. You get truth in labelling, as defined by the food industry.
I'm curious too. Is it the products, or do you just get tired of the buzzword?
As long as things are certified organic, I'm all for it. Like anything else, though, many 'organic' products are hardly organic. It's been co-opted by the marketing folks.
Yeah it is mostly the "buzzword". I just kinda annoys me how much its thrown around and I don't really see why its so important. Whats wrong with regular food?
Yeah it is mostly the "buzzword". I just kinda annoys me how much its thrown around and I don't really see why its so important. Whats wrong with regular food?
I can understand the buzzword being annoying. I find it annoying too, but there advantages to certain organic things, mostly due to what goes into the the production, and more importantly what does not (hormones, pesticides, etc). I cannot afford to eat organic all the time, nor am I entirely sure it is necessary. However, I stand by organic eggs and meat when I can get them (simply because of how it is produced versus conventional). When it comes to meat, I can taste the difference, and I like my food to taste as good as I can get it. I can also taste the difference with some produce such as tomatoes (they might not looks as nice, but have more flavor) . So, while I understand the cynicism in marketing, lets not through the baby out with the bathwater, what isn't wrong about wanting to drink milk less likely to contain pesticides, hormones, and antibiotic residues, there is no reason I need to be drinking cow hormones or cow antibiotics. Ugh.
I can honestly say I never heard of organic water, I just drink what comes out of the tap.
Yeah it is mostly the "buzzword". I just kinda annoys me how much its thrown around and I don't really see why its so important. Whats wrong with regular food?
As j33 said, 'regular food' is often loaded with pesticides, antibiotics, and other stuff that isn't very good for us. The organic stuff is better, generally.
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