Whatever dudes.  Buy from local farmers, that shit's the best regardless.  Don't even know if it's organic or not, doesn't matter, it's still better and doesn't cost retarded whole foods prices.  I give no fucks about the health benefits, the food marketed as organic tend to be HEALTHY FOODS anyway so just eat 'em and stop worrying so much.

If you have a local Amish community just buy your organic foods from there. I went to one and they had multiple 20 pound boxes of tomatoes for $5 each box. cheap

They are definitely one of the best places to get good fruits and vegetables.  However our closest one is one town over so we normally go to a place about 15 minutes from my house that sells tons of local stuff.  It's an especially good place to get tomatoes, eggs, and peaches.

If you have a local Amish community just buy your organic foods from there. I went to one and they had multiple 20 pound boxes of tomatoes for $5 each box. cheap

my mom always did this until she found out they didn't even grow the food at the place she went to, it's all from farms in new york and new jersey. also they were gm, no one can grow tomatoes that big but people think it's just because they're amish they know how to grow big tomatoes

this is a funny thread

Whatever dudes.  Buy from local farmers, that shit's the best regardless.  Don't even know if it's organic or not, doesn't matter, it's still better and doesn't cost retarded whole foods prices.  I give no fucks about the health benefits, the food marketed as organic tend to be HEALTHY FOODS anyway so just eat 'em and stop worrying so much.

Yeah local farmers are the way to go. Once you've had eggs dropped that morning from the chicken's C-word, you'll never be able to eat supermarket eggs without tasting how much shittier they are. Even the SUPER ORGANIC FREE RANGE supermarket eggs taste like papier mache by comparison

i don't think you need to censor cloaca

I've got absolutely nothing against organic food and if I got more than 500e/month I would probably buy some myself because of the taste. I'm just amused if people actually do shit like frequently go to local farms to inspect how they grow their apples.

if you ask nicely at some orchards and berry farms they'll let you pick a lot for a modest price. Why is visiting where your food comes from strange? My local co-op regularly has information sheets about the farms/orchards the foods come from and I'm pretty glad they go through all that for the membership.

dietcoke do you get your foodstuffs at a co-op? if so id like to hear about it! my closest contact with one was this king of the hill episode i watched last week soooo

are they all smelly marxist nutters or what basically

that ep should have turned you away. buy stuff from real farmers it'll actually have a flavor

edit that's a lil harsh on the ol co-ops but I'm serious buy stuff from real farmers if you have any good ones around.

i got 4 pounds of zucchini for a dollar today. there is no way on earth it was organic. i went to a really nice farmer's market in portland that had the world's most beautiful zucchinis and really cheap herbs and flowers as well, and it was pretty lowkey, while the harvard farmer's market has little chef demonstrations which have all been cold vegetable soups so far and really expensive ice cream and chocolate made in somerville from real live raw cacao beans and other wondrous treats that you too can have for slightly more than you are willing to spend.

cacao flowers/pods grow straight off the tree trunk by the way it's very weird and unlikely looking

Yeah local farmers are the way to go. Once you've had eggs dropped that morning from the chicken's C-word, you'll never be able to eat supermarket eggs without tasting how much shittier they are. Even the SUPER ORGANIC FREE RANGE supermarket eggs taste like papier mache by comparison

Hells yes.  We just got some eggs from someone the other day.  The nice thing about my dad being a doctor in a rural community is that his patients are always bringing him food, meaning tons of fresh farm stuff in the summer and tons of cakes and baked goods in the winter.  Everyone's always got more produce than they can eat by themselves and so everyone's always giving it away.  It's one of the few great perks of living in this town.

edit: also I know my semi-local amish community grows their own stuff because they live right down the road from their stands and we've driven past their gardens before 

Everything I know about amish people I learned from a weird al song

http://www.nutraingredients.com/Research/Organic-nutrition-review-a-call-for-stronger-science

when you do this its really infuriating stop posting links to shit if you are arguing for your v..views, do it yourself im not reading some article

post a citation or something, ugh

giving dok a reason to post -_-;

what are you going to make with the zucchini? you could whip up a batch zucchini alfredo, it will impress your friends by being exotic and tasty and they'll think you're very compassionate and worldly for cooking a vegan dish. you could also slice them into discs and cook them in a soup pan with tomato sauce.

I don't understand what the appeal is of inferior organic food. So they don't do any genetic engineering to it either? Is that correct?

So if I want a fruit more insects, and has not been selectively bred to be the best of the best of the crop, AND I want to pay more for it, I should buy organic. Sounds... great! (heh!)