Organic = Just another marketing ploy

[hobgoblinx]

"Organic". You hear the word a lot these days as it pertains to food and grocery stores. Personally I had always found it irksome because most of what everyone eats is organic anyway. I dare you to show me a bag of spinach that ISN'T organic. If you can, I'm betting it's a plastic play-skool toy for 3 year olds

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[tompurdue]

The long and the short of it is, unless you are deliberately going out of your way to spend extra money for a slab of beef that was supposedly butchered from a cow that was allowed to wander at pasture instead of bred in an industrial cattle ranch because it somehow makes you feel like a better person knowing that bessy got to know the pleasures of an open field before they cut her throat

Yep. That's precisely why I do it, and why I don't go too far out of my way to buy organic vegetables. I see no problems with eating meat; it's very healthy in moderate doses. And animals die, all the time; an animal in the wild rarely meets an end which is other than horrific.

But I hate to think of the animal suffering on my behalf. Death is painless, if done right, and there's no need for it to suffer an even worse torment in life.

The industrial-organic animals aren't treated as well as I'd like; I hear conflicting stories about just how badly they're treated. When I can, I buy from farmers whom I know to treat their animals well.

And as for taste, it's very, very obvious in eggs. Plain-old supermarket eggs are really quite insipid compared to ones laid by chickens who eat bugs in the yard (at four to five times the price).

Props on recognizing the portion-control bit. The food industry is quite devious in their ways of getting you to eat more than you want.