Comments on: Buy Fresh, Buy Local, Buy Organic

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:10:06 +0000

You’ve been tagged!!

Check out my blog, to find out what it means!! Thanks for helping me make my life a little more green!

By: trish (girlatgym)

trish (girlatgym) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:38:54 +0000

I totally agree! This sort of thing is just misleading people.

By: Michelle @ Find Your Balance

Michelle @ Find Your Balance — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:07:33 +0000

Every time I buy organic I consider it a political vote. I want to support farmers and businesses using smart growing practices. Period!

By: Hilarie

Hilarie — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:22:57 +0000

Michael Pollan does a wonderful overview of what he refers to as “the Rise of Nutritionalism” in his In Defense of Food” (excerpted in the article at http://www.michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=87)

Nutritionism = “the widely shared but unexamined assumption is that the key to understanding food is indeed the nutrient. From this basic premise flow several others. Since nutrients, as compared with foods, are invisible and therefore slightly mysterious, it falls to the scientists to explain the hidden reality of foods to us.”

One big problem w/ nutritionism (according to Marion Nestle, NYU,) is ”is that it takes the nutrient out of the context of food, the food out of the context of diet and the diet out of the context of lifestyle.”

We get a gift of the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter “practical advise on how to stay healthy via nutrition and excercise.” I hate it. They are also nutritionists who compartmentalize foods and declare that there is no “significant benefit” to eating organics.

Sell outs!

How did we give up the understanding that WHOLE FOODS are important!?
(Not individual components of foods.)
Did we let politics and science convince us otherwise and is this a last gasp of the old guard clinging to their hold on influencing food purchase & production?

Spread the word!
Local / organic / biodynamic !

By: Allison

Allison — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:50:42 +0000

I mean – that argument just boggles my mind. Yes, the nutrition content might not have changed – but you are so right – HELLO – pesticides?

By: healthy ashley

healthy ashley — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:27:10 +0000

I’m still in awe of how anyone could say organic isn’t healthier!?!?

By: Heather (be well & take care)

Heather (be well & take care) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:47:55 +0000

TRUTH! There are no other words needed, really. I’m hitting up a new local/organic produce store tomorrow to check it out – hopefully he’ll have some nice stuff!

By: jaime

jaime — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:04:18 +0000

Meow! I love it. Speak the truth, sister. Great post.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:18:48 +0000

Great post!
I completely agree. Even if they contain no more Vitamin C or Potassium than conventional foods, Organic always wins, just because it doesn’t have toxins!! And Local is even better. There is so much more to food than just the individual nutrients (although they are important). Cheap food isn’t cheap when you look at all the corners that are being cut and future/current degradation of land, and health.
Go organic! and get to know who grows your food!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:52:05 +0000

You know i’m not that green, but try when i remember. =) I have to agree that food grown in your own backyard or fresh from the farmers market tastes so much better then what I find at safeway. Especially the fruit. Like the cherries I brought to work, I’ve never tasted a cherry that good. They even looked wonderful!! I’m usually alergic to cherries but I love them and I had no reaction from eating the ones from my neighbors tree.