Lesser of two evils?

[gemfyre]

The post about tomatoes and beans made me think of this.

When buying bananas I have two options.

Queensland Bananas
- Cheaper
- Easier to find
- Come from the other side of the country.
- Are sold loose (I don't use plastic bags for fruit and veg, unless it's small items like beans or something).

or

Organic Carnarvon Bananas- A few dollars more

Comments

[jennifer19]

I tend to buy bananas non-organic only because I'm living on a very limited income these days. It's one of the few produce items I don't buy organic because the peel comes off. When I get a higher income someday I'll switch over but sadly...yeah. So that's my 2 cents.

[aislinggheal]

Personally I would go for the ones without the packaging. I hate to see excessive packaging, especially for something like bananas! Plus with the heavy skin I am less concerned about conventional vs. organic.

[gemfyre]

There's also the matter of food miles.

Queensland to Perth is about 5000km.
Carnarvon to Perth is about 1000km.

[rubyspirit]

You don't have to buy bananas organic. They are not part of the dirty dozen and are not grown with a lot of pesticides.

[kitten_wrangler]

Okay. Organics aside, I think it comes down to the following issue

[gemfyre]

The Carnarvon bananas are marketed as "Lunchbox Bananas", and are in packaging at all stores. I might have to track down their mailing address!

Eco-bananas are the wax-tipped ones - I'm not sure of the whole story on these, but I often buy them, if only because they last longer!

[lintilla]

Here's what Google picks up for eco banana.

Of course, a lot of that is marketing, so.

[kitten_wrangler]

And now that I think even further - the freaking organic produce in the local Woolies here is encased in styrofoam and plastic wrapping so that we don't try and pass it off as the cheaper stuff. Maybe I should start writing something somewhere to someone.... but how could supermarkets differentiate between the two sorts of the same bean (for example)?