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I wouldn't pay that much for tomatoes anyhow.

"Organic" = fertilized with shiat.

Idk why but I suddenly am reminded of all the signs I see when driving from socal to norcal on the 5.

"stop the government created drought"

"stop dumping in our water supply, you eat what we grow"

"Nancy pelosi is corrupt"

Etc

I go out of my way to buy non-"organic."

Blah blah blah blah BUY LOCAL blah blah blah blah

Organic matters less than where it was grown. know your farmer, it's easy! they love to talk about their crops, or if you don't care they will just sell you your produce and you can go about your business.

This means you have to buy in season stuff, but get used to it. This or we keep killing the planet trucking food halfway across the world.

There are a lot of things that are organic or all-natural that I wouldn't ever consider eating, much less pay extra for. I'm not sure if it's still true, but for a long time the only organic farms that could survive were directly downwind from traditional farms. Probably a coincidence.

I don't know why people like organic food. It's worse for the environment, costs more and tastes worse. Further, if organic farming were employed worldwide, billions of people would starve.

i can take a shiat in a box and mark it organic, then all you have is an organic piece of shiat

buyer beware. In SoCal, the "organic" chicken is factory raised but fed "organic" feed. Now you have to look for the "free range" label on your organic meat.

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ukexpat: "Organic" = fertilized with shiat.

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Just like 5,000+ years of farming

/better than ddt, alar, etc

Free-range tomatoes are better because they're allowed to run around the garden, picking up advice from other vegetables on how to be flavorful.

Organic is fine. Non-GMO is ideal.

So Mexico is farking up organic growing too.

Gee thats a surprise.

Grow it yourself or buy from neighbors or friends. That's how sh*t should work.

I'm more than willing to pay $7.99 a pound if they are "orgasmic" tomatoes.

gimmegimme: I don't know why people like organic food. It's worse for the environment, costs more and tastes worse. Further, if organic farming were employed worldwide, billions of people would starve.

the_chief: I go out of my way to buy non-"organic."

Even more amusing than the marketers ripping off hippies with their "organic" products are those with absolutely no idea what they are talking about offering up excellent knee-jerk reactions like these.

I prefer synthetic produce. I want my tomatoes coming out of a 3d printer!

and

I don't buy them, nickel, I GROW THEM. Then I can, freeze, dehydrate, juice, and preserve them, stunod. Take your 7.99$ a pound and CONTEMPORIZE, MANNNN

Organic is the Monster Cables of food.

Is my pole-and-line caught trout still legit?

darkvstar: Now you have to look for the "free range" label on your organic meat.

That way you know that it grew by eating bugs and not corn.

naveline: I don't buy them, nickel, I GROW THEM. Then I can, freeze, dehydrate, juice, and preserve them, stunod. Take your 7.99$ a pound and CONTEMPORIZE, MANNNN

And by the way, I did this on the fire escape in downtown Baltimore for 8 years before I had a Tomato Village to play Italian Broad in. . . .

I can sell my my
tomatoes for that much to yuppies?
I'm doing it wrong

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Organic produce implies inorganic produce

Can someone explain this for the uneducated masses (like myself)?

I only eat free range veal.

If you have the time, inclination, and property I highly recommend growing your own.

Free range tomatoes?

Would these by chance be killer tomatoes?

I saw "organic salt" on the shelf once. Laughed my ass off. I don't think anyone else got the joke.

/And yes, I know about the different connotations of the word "organic"

Considering the NY Times is Free Trade Communist Globalist like the other Democrat/GOP NeoCon/NearlyCom media...you will probably see a lot of articles going against Organic Farming

Reality is that most of the food Americans now eat is grown in 3d World Crapholes like Communist China and Latin America. This organic farm in Mexico is 1000 X more safer than what most Americans will eat from Latin America

Most Americans do not realize that the vast majority of food they eat is from overseas. Most US agri production is shipped to foreign countries.

Even with Organic foods coming from other nations....you still are more likely to have an American organic product than a corporate farm product

Free Trade Communist Globalists hate Organic and Local Farms. They know once more people purchase those products...the costs go down and the McFood Corporations will lose.

SoCalSurfer: Idk why but I suddenly am reminded of all the signs I see when driving from socal to norcal on the 5.

"stop the government created drought"

"stop dumping in our water supply, you eat what we grow"

"Nancy pelosi is corrupt"

Etc

All those farms that you see while driving up the 5 or the 99 are not owned by some family farmer wearing denim overalls, they're owned by corporations. These are the kind of farms that refuse to pay their immigrant pickers an extra ten cents per flat, even though it would make the difference between the pickers feeding their families or not. By and large, corporate agriculture would gladly poison your family if it meant a few extra bucks on their bottom line. Oh, but they'll still show advertisements of happy cows grazing on beautiful fields of flowers.