Comments on: When buying organic is essential, and when it isn’t http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/good-food/2009/04/27/when-buying-organic-is-essential-and-when-it-isnt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=when-buying-organic-is-essential-and-when-it-isnt Going green doesn't have to be complicated Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:07:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Buying Organic http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/good-food/2009/04/27/when-buying-organic-is-essential-and-when-it-isnt/comment-page-1/#comment-69104 Buying Organic Thu, 14 May 2009 08:17:26 +0000 http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/?p=2380#comment-69104 Its all about quality of the produce not the quantity. Go out and support your local businesses. Its all about quality of the produce not the quantity. Go out and support your local businesses.

]]> By: Paul http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/good-food/2009/04/27/when-buying-organic-is-essential-and-when-it-isnt/comment-page-1/#comment-69055 Paul Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:54:41 +0000 http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/?p=2380#comment-69055 When budgets are tight, eat less. Cheap food has led to a lot of waste, especially at supermarkets. Plus people throw a lot of food out. Also now supermarkets are looking at large scale anaerobic digestion systems for dealing with food waste and for generating energy, this is a bad way of dealing with the core problem. But they are not tackling the source of the problem which is cheap food. The other issue is that cheap food drives farmers out of business. When budgets are tight, eat less.

Cheap food has led to a lot of waste, especially at supermarkets. Plus people throw a lot of food out.
Also now supermarkets are looking at large scale anaerobic digestion systems for dealing with food waste and for generating energy, this is a bad way of dealing with the core problem.
But they are not tackling the source of the problem which is cheap food.
The other issue is that cheap food drives farmers out of business.

]]> By: Organic Trade http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/good-food/2009/04/27/when-buying-organic-is-essential-and-when-it-isnt/comment-page-1/#comment-69054 Organic Trade Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:44:22 +0000 http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/?p=2380#comment-69054 Thank you for brining people's attention to the importance of choosing organic.The Organic Trade Association would just caution people against the idea of limiting their organic purchases to the list of items you reference in this blog. While establishing such limits may help to reduce the size of your personal food budget, it misses an important point: buying organic is about more than keeping pesticides out of our bodies. It is about supporting a system of sustainable agricultural management that promotes soil health and fertility through the use of such methods as crop rotation and cover cropping, which nourish plants, foster species diversity, help combat climate change, prevent damage to valuable water resources, and protect farmers and farmers’ families from exposure to harmful chemicals. In this sense, buying organic is a commitment to the bigger, more complex picture of which our personal health is a part. www.organicitsworthit.com Thank you for brining people’s attention to the importance of choosing organic.The Organic Trade Association would just caution people against the idea of limiting their organic purchases to the list of items you reference in this blog. While establishing such limits may help to reduce the size of your personal food budget, it misses an important point: buying organic is about more than keeping pesticides out of our bodies. It is about supporting a system of sustainable agricultural management that promotes soil health and fertility through the use of such methods as crop rotation and cover cropping, which nourish plants, foster species diversity, help combat climate change, prevent damage to valuable water resources, and protect farmers and farmers’ families from exposure to harmful chemicals. In this sense, buying organic is a commitment to the bigger, more complex picture of which our personal health is a part.

http://www.organicitsworthit.com

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