toma_alimosh
Also known as "Myke Hunt"
Made a new thread and linked from the other one because it was getting way too off-topic for that thread and people needed to post more of "something else" less about food. Although we're all eaten the other stuff as infants anyway.
So here goes:
Organic foods and traditionally natural grown foods are not the same thing.
If you find it in a supermarket, doesn't matter how it's labeled, you can be sure that it's all the same shit.
Also, watched the Penn & Teller episode to see what it was about. What a load of crap show ... all it did was propaganda. They chose a bunch of hippie naturists to portray consumers of a product, so the weirdest of the bunch they could find and every single "expert" point on the show was made by people who have no specialization whatsoever in the field they're endeavoring in with their comments and who stand to make big bucks by holding their own point of view firmly.
I still think the notion of "organic foods" is a whole bunch of bullshit given to consumers who don't know any better just so supermarkets can charge them more for a product that is not as most people expect it to be. If you want healthy food, go search for it outside a supermarket. However, I think that their show is also a bunch of bullshit. It's nothing but biased propaganda that answers no real questions with no actual proof.
But what I know more than anything is that back in Romania, as a child/teen, when I basically only had food from farmers who grew it how their ancestors before them grew it, raw food over there tastes quite differently, if not a whole lot better than over here. Some of the sources of foods I ate were members of my extended family, so I know well enough the regular farming methods they employed. And they used no tractors, no pesticides, no modified seeds (they grew their own seeds), no fertilizer, etc.
After I came to Canada I've basically eaten only supermarket foods because that's all you can find here. Farmer's markets here are the same thing that arrives at you local supermarket anyway. All farming here is mechanized, all uses pesticides, they're all fertilized and you'd be hard-pressed to find something that hasn't been genetically modified. The result? Most things have little to no taste at all here. Strawberries don't taste like strawberries anymore. They taste like pure, refined sugar. Their insides don't look the same either. They're supposed to look rosy inside if you bite them, but they look completely white. Also, tomatoes also have almost no taste at all and are all-pale. Apples taste like someone gave them an injection with petrol ... it all sucks.
The only foods that actually come close to the taste and look of things back home are the foods grown by the Amish people around here. So you draw your own conclusions how you may, but I only believe in this stuff because of my experience with it. Forget the scientific drama, people's concerns with health and all that stuff ... I tasted the difference and factory farmed and genetically modified foods just don't taste right to me. And if they don't taste right, they can't be too good for you as far as I'm concerned.
So here goes:
Organic foods and traditionally natural grown foods are not the same thing.
If you find it in a supermarket, doesn't matter how it's labeled, you can be sure that it's all the same shit.
Also, watched the Penn & Teller episode to see what it was about. What a load of crap show ... all it did was propaganda. They chose a bunch of hippie naturists to portray consumers of a product, so the weirdest of the bunch they could find and every single "expert" point on the show was made by people who have no specialization whatsoever in the field they're endeavoring in with their comments and who stand to make big bucks by holding their own point of view firmly.
I still think the notion of "organic foods" is a whole bunch of bullshit given to consumers who don't know any better just so supermarkets can charge them more for a product that is not as most people expect it to be. If you want healthy food, go search for it outside a supermarket. However, I think that their show is also a bunch of bullshit. It's nothing but biased propaganda that answers no real questions with no actual proof.
But what I know more than anything is that back in Romania, as a child/teen, when I basically only had food from farmers who grew it how their ancestors before them grew it, raw food over there tastes quite differently, if not a whole lot better than over here. Some of the sources of foods I ate were members of my extended family, so I know well enough the regular farming methods they employed. And they used no tractors, no pesticides, no modified seeds (they grew their own seeds), no fertilizer, etc.
After I came to Canada I've basically eaten only supermarket foods because that's all you can find here. Farmer's markets here are the same thing that arrives at you local supermarket anyway. All farming here is mechanized, all uses pesticides, they're all fertilized and you'd be hard-pressed to find something that hasn't been genetically modified. The result? Most things have little to no taste at all here. Strawberries don't taste like strawberries anymore. They taste like pure, refined sugar. Their insides don't look the same either. They're supposed to look rosy inside if you bite them, but they look completely white. Also, tomatoes also have almost no taste at all and are all-pale. Apples taste like someone gave them an injection with petrol ... it all sucks.
The only foods that actually come close to the taste and look of things back home are the foods grown by the Amish people around here. So you draw your own conclusions how you may, but I only believe in this stuff because of my experience with it. Forget the scientific drama, people's concerns with health and all that stuff ... I tasted the difference and factory farmed and genetically modified foods just don't taste right to me. And if they don't taste right, they can't be too good for you as far as I'm concerned.
