j4ckos mate

Do you buy organic food,

i have just bought some potatoes, and some veg for x-mas day,
we dont normally, and i wondered if most are the same as me.


it was quite amusing ath this posh deli in chorlton, all the middle class yuppies buyng organic cider, thinking they are saving the planet and loading it in their x5

Dedrater

Nope, never for me.

kingofturds

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I prefer my food pumped full of pesticides and steroids. The missus bought organic lamb once, it looked so scrawny and pathetic .

PaulC72

not really, why is it so much more expensive when it does not contain ay pesticides etc surely it should be cheaper

Gordo

it's made up nonsense for the gullible

David_Dickson

what annoys me is my local supermarket sells organic carrots, but they are complete with the stalk and leaves etc, so you are paying even more for the extra weight of the stuff you throw away.

bootsy

i buy straight from my local farmers

Matteeboy

Riverford organic veg box been delivered for over three years now.
Great variety, great produce, often cheaper than supermarkets, easy.

corradoboy

Local farm for veg, cheese, bread; local (excellent) butcher for meat; supermarket for ****-wipe etc.

hux309

I buy it when it actually tastes better but i don't buy it all the time.

Diesel

Its worth it for meat, but they should punish celery and aubergine with hormones, antibiotics, recycled bat faeces for food and keep it anaemic and fed only on milk in small dark iron cages, well away from its mummy .

So, in summary, yes it is really worth it for meat for health, taste, compassion and welfare reasons.

D

dpb

Fortunately ( for the provider) the term organic has become blurred to the point of meaning nothing.

I try to buy free range chicken whenever possible

Abdabz

I had to click yes - but I dont do it all the time... I always buy orgasmic banananananas as they taste nicerer but other fruit and veg it just depends on what mood I am in.

M444GY

iTrader: (72)

no . its more expensive and tastes like ****

Chip

Same here

Chip

druddle

Same as. Their veg is top class, and seasonal too and they dont airfrieght anything in so theres no irradiation going on. Their meat boxes are very good value aswell, they work out cheaper than supermarket prices and its delivered free to your door every month.

We buy organic where we can, its what we like to do as we care about what we are eating. But I also dont expect everyone to agree so I dont preach it.

Dave

Removed.

We buy it where it's cheaper, or tastes better. Our local dairy does organic milk which tastes more like milk from when I was a kid. If we were less fussy about how our food looked, and didn't worry about odd shaped spuds, crooked carrots or less than spherical onions, we'd all be eating cheaper food. In fact, I believe the EU is looking to relax some of the restrictions on what is "acceptable" as far as shape/colour/size when it comes to fruit and veg, as a way to reduce prices. A large amount of produce is either chucked, or sent to be processed for commercial use or as animal feed, as it simply doesn't look perfect, not because there's actually anything wrong with it. Let's be honest, how many of us have heard our other halves waxing lyrical about all the lovely produce in markets in foreign places, which look far more like fruit and veg than the supermarket perfect stuff we get.

boxst

Yes. My wife believes it is better although I'm unconvinced. Although having said that some things do taste better.

She also buys from the local farm that is not organic.

Steve

Wagon Gaz

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Apart from the fact Organic growers use Copper Sulphate ( highly toxic) as a fungicide, the whole organic ideal is totally un sustainable, if we levelled every rain forrest and cultivated every square centimeter of available park, garden etc we would still not be able to feed the world organically. All pesticides go through more extencive testing than medicines. Buy high welfare, RSPCA standard meat and Red tractor badged food products and you wont go far wrong.

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I try and buy fresh local produce from local markets and/or butchers. Not fussed about organic, think it is a big rip off but I am passionate about supporting local business's and produce. I resent going to a supermarket but it is hard to avoid for everyday products.

Chop

Coffin Dodger

We grow our own, try not to use pesticides etc, and use organic fertilisers. Couldn't guarantee it's truly organic though.

Tastes miles better than the ****e you buy in the supermarket though

Matteeboy

We' ve grown a lot this year but not enough to keep us going!

Just find Riverford stuff so much better - the variety sort of forces you to try different stuff and I'll happily scrub all my veg.

We grew (all properly organically)

Spuds (first and second earlies) - lost about 30-40%
Broad beans - all good.
Courgettes - all good.
Aubergines - not so good!
Toms - a bit average
Rhubarb - amazing!
Herbs (sage, mint, rosemary, basil) - all went mental!

Plus we have half a dozen apple trees and a billion blackberries (this place used to be a working sursery) which made great crumbles.

All I need is a rifle to shoot the rabbits and we'd be self sustaining!

al4x1

do you reckon?

animals from decent farms aren't pumped with drugs contrary to the good bit of organic pr as drugs aren't cheap. However they are treated when they are ill and then the animal is witheld from slaughter for a period that is determined by how long the drug stays in its system

as for organic milk well the mastitis cell counts tend to be rather high compared to normally treated cows but its fine a bitt of puss in your milk will do you good

Personally I prefer local produce and where possible do buy a whole lamb or half cow from a local farm where I know most of their life has been outside and the meat has been hung well and so far no issues over taste.

Wagon Gaz

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Freedom foods is the badge to watch for on meat, this is monitored by the RSPCA and represents a good quality of life for the animal, I have worked on freedom foods pig farms so I know how stringent the perameters are

little-ginge

Try to buy organic where possible.. i drink organic milk, only eat free range eggs & free range chicken ( organic when M&S have it )

stevem2k

Abel & Cole box for us every fortnight

Wife is now a reformed vegetarian, so all the meat we buy is organic or locally sourced too.

Markus

Funny this debate should come up as we popped over to "Whole Foods Market" last night for a few things for Christmas. I wasn't totally enthused about going there as last time I looked I'm not some lentil munching weirdo trying to save the planet, which is my, possibly, somewhat blinkered view of some of the types who might shop in such a place.

It was more expensive that other local supermarkets, but there also did seem to be a far better range of things available, for example, the butcher counter had a very nice range of sausages and burgers, whose lips and ******* content was probably very low or possibly non-existent.

No doubt we'll go there again, but not for our normal weekly shop, maybe as a once a month thing, the additional cost does not really justify things.

One thing we did both pick up on, as we have done before, is the packaged products were imported from the USA. This made me snigger. All these lentil munchers who buy organic to save the planet and yet their overpriced food is not produced in the same country they live in, let alone locally produced, and thus it's trucked in from the US. I find this to be a delicious irony as there is still a bit of planet killing going on for them to get their items.