Reply #74: This is not true [View All]

"It is a pleasant fantasy for the upscale few and a personal statement for people, but it has little if anything to do with the real world."

"There is a lot of money in the organic movement, from donations and grants to commercial hustles, and that is what is driving it. The public is being misled and ripped off, and scarce research dollars are being funneled into dead ends."


It has everything to do with the real world. There are people and businesses, gardens and farms, markets -- urban and suburban -- and customers (affluent or poor and in between) working to feed themselves in a healthy, live, non-toxic, affordable way, all over the country and the planet.

There is of course some truth to the points about marketing. Any product in a standard grocery store needs to have its label read to determine the actual ingredients. "Organic" is trendy now b/c of the great public interest in it. (See above).

There is a whole range of activity going on. Your blanket statements don't help or reflect the healthy affordable eating cause....

:hi: Come out West, we'll fix you a meal.