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Thread ID: 139005	2015-02-22 22:33:00	Do you buy organic?	Roscoe (6288)	PC World Chat

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1394860	2015-02-22 22:33:00	If you do, why? Organic looks, feels, smells and tastes exactly the same so why would you pay more for a product that is exactly the same as non organic? It defies logic. :confused: The only difference is the way it is treated as it is grown and I can't understand why that would be more expensive. It's the same with free range. No difference there either except for the exorbitant price. So why would you buy free range eggs? Makes no sense. As with organic, there is no difference in way the end product is produced, it's just that one lot are running free and one is not. How can that affect the eggs? In this case as well, it defies logic.:illogical I can only think that there are people out there with more money than sense.:horrified	Roscoe (6288)
1394861	2015-02-22 22:49:00	Organic as far as produce is concerned is just a marketing ploy. If anything I avoid it and leave it for those who have more money than sense.	CliveM (6007)
1394862	2015-02-22 22:53:00	I can only think that there are people out there with more money than sense.:horrified so, you have a biased, narrow viewpoint & then take a "better than you" attitude". :) Its not about taste . I buy organic eggs, free range. I dont support cruelty to farm animals , so I spend that extra $2. I also dont want to eat all the hormones & drugs(yes) feed to chickens Local council had to stop using chicken poop in its composting scheme, as the poop had so much antibiotics it was killing the composting process. So yes , farm animals are feed hormones & drugs. Give the choice, Id rather not eat them I buy organic apples, when the supermarket has them, just so I dont have to eat all the pestisides on them. There have been plenty of instances (NZ) where tested fruit & veg have been over the max allowable residual levels for pestisides & herbicides On the other hand, organic fruit & veg at the local supermarket(when available) is often really bad quality & starts rotting withing a day or so. And some organic producers are farming on land riddled with chemicals from previous owners . That was the case many years back when organic milk was first being mass marketed here , when tested it still had residues (traced back to one farm)	1101 (13337)
1394863	2015-02-23 00:00:00	No but I grow organic food instead and yes it does taste way better	gary67 (56)
1394864	2015-02-23 00:04:00	No but I grow organic food instead and yes it does taste way better Same here - much shorter path between harvest and plate, so always fresh and tasty!!	johcar (6283)
1394865	2015-02-23 00:24:00	All food is organic by definition, just to be that annoying pedantic guy.. Anyway if you object to mass food production techniques and can afford to buy products that you feel are produced more responsibly or more healthily and want that for your family then that's fantastic and you should carry on doing it. However it's actually physically impossible for everyone to do that, the world simply cannot produce sufficient food that way for the current population. The only way it works is if we start reducing the population down to a level that is sustainable for those food production methods. On another note, I drove past a free range chicken farm once. There was a small square fenced off mud paddock with about 1 chicken per square metre. Maybe that's better than a cage but not a whole hell of a lot. Back when I lived on a farm the Chickens had their wings trimmed and tended to wander around the farm fairly freely and roost in the pine trees.	dugimodo (138)
1394866	2015-02-23 01:00:00	No but I grow organic food instead and yes it does taste way better No, fresh picked and sun ripened tastes better. PLus the variety of the veges you grow helps. We are not organic, we are until such things as psyllid and passion vine hopper strike. tried all the "organic" fixes, no joy so out came the maverick. Spraying with maverick or not spraying, the taste is the same. And I prefer to have happy plants not trashed ones. I don't object to the organic as such except for one huge thing. The con with the prices. Watched a Country Calendar epsiode where one of the framers resisted it, gave in and tried it, said how great is was not spending heaps on various things anymore, mostly his animals and crops were OK and he found, the best bit - he could double his prices. He said it was the best trend ever. I agree. It's such a con...the outrageous price for manky produce...it should be cheaper.	pctek (84)
1394867	2015-02-23 01:12:00	We are not organic, we are until such things as psyllid and passion vine hopper strike. tried all the "organic" fixes, no joy so out came the maverick. Did you try Neem oil? It keeps the bugs off our veges, especially white fly.	PPp (9511)
1394868	2015-02-23 01:56:00	I bet these Queensland fruit flies in the leafy suburb of Grey Lynn in Auckland love all this organic fruit with no spray on them..	paulw (1826)
1394869	2015-02-23 02:34:00	If your soil conditions are right then the bugs pretty much stay away on their own. We save our own seeds too as the plants we then grow are more adapted to the conditions where we live which also helps keep the bugs at bay.	gary67 (56)
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