Purposed Surgeon Generals Warning on produce

[Soulshine]

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Whole Foods or Half Foods? - Organic Consumers

As we all know, Whole Foods has taken over as the central provider of supposedly safe and nutritious food for urban consumers in the U.S. While Whole Foods' advertising touts their importance in the safe food movement that is sweeping the country;...

www.organicconsumers.org

This article was quite an eye opener for me and really helps put into perspective how poisonous and toxic the pesticides are that are used on our produce. It was the straw that broke the camels for me. My girlfriend and i have switched to organic foods (she was all ready started, then she showed me this, which was all i needed for motivation). The transition is kind of difficult but once the ball is rolling it gets easier.

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[benzyme]

oh, ok.. an organic foods industry interest group advocates it, i'm in.

*goes organic*

 

[jamie]

Funny how half the article is about whole foods..which is a place I am glad to almost never visit anymore. I cant stand that place..all the overly trendy people and the lack of decent produce most of the time made me seriously crave the farmers markets.

Half the crap you find at whole foods is GMO. At least here, all season long not even 1 single watermelon with seeds either..whats with that? Why would I want sterile fruit?

They have some good things that are hard to find but in general they are not really an organic or natural health food market at all.

If you can, grow food. This year I am thinking big becasue we are planning on moving into a 3 bedroom top floor of a house with the entire back yard that is all garden space for us to use..so I am going to go get as many heirloom seeds as I can.

 

[applebaum]

I've never seen a place filled with people with more of an air of self satisfaction than in a whole foods. Next time you go in there count number of people you walk past with a smug look on their face. It's kind of ridiculous.

I won't go in anymore after I saw them charging 4 or 5 dollars a pound for Zucchini in August, when the fair price for Zucchini at that time of year is free.

If you want organic produce and absolutely cannot grow your own garden check in the back of regular grocery stores. When I used to live in a city I would dumpster dive every week and realized organic produce gets thrown out at a much higher rate than conventional produce. I suppose because it's priced higher and so doesn't sell as well. When a new truck comes in the old food goes out. And dumpster fruit tastes better than store fruit anyway because they throw it out when it gets ripe.

 

[Soulshine]

I can absolutely see where you guys are coming from with the "trendy smug people" in whole food stores. I was just simply trying to get the point accross on how bad for you the chemicals really are on regular produce thats all. Just being more health consious.

 

[benzyme]

if it really concerns you, perhaps grow your own fruits; get meats from a local butcher instead of franchises.
i don't eat enough strawberries or peaches to really get concerned about my pesticide intake,
although said chems do wreak havoc on lakes and streams, and that makes me sad

 

[Xt]

I was buying over priced tofu the other day when a women on teh store was being sold oat milk for an insane price. I went to chase her so i could explain how she could make oat milk herself but i was a bit slow. Off she went in the 4x4 off road vehicle... in a major western urban city.