> > >Noticed when I went grocery shopping this week that the local chain > >supermarket I shop at no longer carries regular vegetables & fresh > >produce. Everything is now "Organic". > > Everything? That's amazing - even Whole Foods Market has > conventional as well as organic produce. > > >I can't see or detect any difference other than the higher prices. > > For the most part it's not supposed to be different for you and me: > It's supposed to be better for the environment (fewer > pesticides and fertilizers contaminating soil and water).
It also usually tastes better. Tomatoes are the prime example of this for me, but it's true of most meat as well. However, the organic market has changed a lot since the days (early 80s) when I started to eat it. Back then you could only buy it in weird little shops out of jute sacks, you had to have a beard (women included), and the quality was often rather suspect. I remember once buying some cashews from an enormous sack and when I got home I found that half the cashews were in fact maggots. Never went to that shop again. Organic is big business now, and some of the former benefits have been sacrificed to ease of production, convenience and standardised packaging and sizing. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
