Organic foods?

Organic foods?

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Am I the only person on this planet that has not switched over to organic foods? I mean like free range chickens & eggs...non antibiotic and hormone meats...fruits & veggies without insecticides. With the price of food rising and the price of gas and everything else whats going to give?
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Um, no.

I'm a biology major, which is why I don't eat organic unless it's the only thing available. No, that's not contradictory; let me explain.

I don't buy organic veggies - that is, vegetables that were grown without insecticides - because I know that most (read: nearly all) plants produce natural poisons when insects munch on them. If you use insecticides, the plants don't get eaten so they don't make their own bug poison, and then when you harvest the plants you can just wash the insecticide off. Organic plants have bug poison - that is, insecticide - on the inside, where you can't get rid of it so easily. In the end, you probably get just as much if not more insecticide from a pound of organic food as you do from non-organic. Plus, they charge you more.

My logic: why pay a dollar more for the stuff that has more poison in it? Save the money and eat more safely, that's my motto!

The main danger from hormone meats is we aren't sure what it does. Um, okay. That means that it isn't doing anything bad enough to notice. *shrug* It might have an effect on your epigenetics or something, but since we're still figuring out how those things work, I wouldn't worry too much.

Antibiotics can be a legitimate concern *IF* they can show that it has a significant effect. I understand the theory just fine. In theory, they say, antibiotics given to livestock get into the meat. Then when you eat the meat, you kill just enough bacteria in your immune system to make other bacteria immune. Then if you get sick and try to take the same antibiotic, it won't cure you.

This is good in theory. In practice, however, antibiotics from meat might cause only a fraction of a percent of all drug-resistant illnesses. Doctors who allow patients to bully them into prescribing an over-the-counter antibiotic for a viral infection are far worse; people who demand antibiotics instantly for minor sicknesses are also bad; and people who are sick who irresponsibly spread their illness when they're not yet done with all of their medicine are just as bad as the other two.

In short, antibiotics from cows might cause something like one in ten thousand drug-resistant illnesses. There's a separate case for what could happen to the industry if a drug-resistent bacteria killed a bunch of cows, but since most diseases can't cross over from animals to people, that's still no reason not to have antibiotic-fed beef.

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No. Many people can't afford it. The thing is, the term "organic" has become just another advertising ploy.

Locally grown/raised food is the best if you're concerned about quality, but that may get expensive, too.

I predict that prices will continue to rise for quite a while, because our economy is in a recession. I wouldn't be surprised if a depression is in order. As things get worse, people will try to save what they can. Organic food will become a luxury.

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