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southern MN | Said this before:
Consumers realized the plastic food they were getting from the store shelves in the 70s into the 90s was sugar, grease, and oil with some bad side effects.
They now want healthy food, and a better understanding of where their food comes from, a connection to the farm as their grandparents and maybe parents had back to a farm in a distant memory.
The food processors got scared, and have now climbed aboard the organic bandwagon, so they still get their piece of the pie. They can overcharge for an organic labeled item, belittle the farmers that 'use all those chemicals,' and come out pretty good with record profits selling the old processed junk to the low cost stores, and the specialized fancy label 3x markup organic labeled stuff.
Us farmers get the shaft.
I'm disappointed with consumers, but it isn't their fault. They fell asleep for a while and bough really bad for you food. Now they want to change; but change is difficult. It is easy to just buy from a different isle, the one marked 'organic' and even if it costs 3x as much, food is so cheap that still fits most people's budgets for as much as they cook per week.
It's hard to learn and become educated. Consumers should learn that making good choices of fibered foods, less sugar, a little less fat, makes for a good healthy food. Probably even more healthy coming from the regular isles than from the organic ones, but it is all in the processing, taking the raw ingredients and coming up with a good food. -That- is the important part.
Not whether it is organic or conventional.
But one way is easy, the other takes some effort.....
Paul
Edit - dang spelling gremlins
Edited by paul the original 12/18/2017 19:44
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