Are organic foods really healthier than non-organic foods? Are they better for animals? Are they better for the environment? Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, explains.
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Isn’t all food organic?
I notice a huge difference in the quality of organic/free range eggs and chicken. Grass fed beef taste much better than corn fed. And maybe it’s not so much that it’s “organic” beef. Maybe they’re not pumping as much shit in it after it’s been butchered.
It is if you’re growing it yourself, with minimal artificial inputs
I mke a habitat of drinking lots of beer to kill all of the GMO’s that will give me a third arm or leg, and I’m good. Beir, it’s what’s for breakfast! HELLO⚔️🤙
The answer is no. Cost more, lower yields.
Grass fed beef is really good, and fresh fish is the way to go.
My uncle used to raise steers for home eating. All
they got was alfalfa, corn, and milk. He’d have them
butchered at 12-15 months.
Best beef I’ve ever had in my life.
My dad and my uncle always raised a couple of cows every year on my uncle’s farm in N. Idaho. And every fall we would slaughter the cows and have a butcher cut them up for us to freeze and take to a local meat locker so that we could have meat for a year. Beef that you raise by yourself is the best meat you can have and liver from a freshly killed cow and eaten the day it was slaughtered was the best liver we ever had. I’m still not crazy about slaughtering but it had to be done, I’m not a big blood and guts fans when you cut a cow open and disembowel it, it’s pretty nasty stuff. but the coyotes and the crows and other carrion loved it since we’d place the guts on an old car hood and drag them across the field to the far end of the farm with the tractor, nothing was wasted. We generally always had fresh vegetables as well and eggs from a local egg ranch called Chicken Joe’s and milk, cheese etc. from a local dairy. I feel fortunate that way having grown up that way.
PragerU butchered this one, IMHO. Ever since things went mostly organic around this household, health and well being have been greatly improved. It runs not only in your food but also hygiene, cleaning, and general application products. There is a substantial benefit to an organic lifestyle. Try it for a few months if you’re daring enough, otherwise don’t knock it. I used to down Advil like candy. Now, about 8 Advil total this YEAR; less pain in life is awesome if even only temporary.
We would also name our cows, one year we ate Zeke and Zelda and they were tasty.
Some free range chickens eat free range horse shit.
I’m just a little suspicious of organic foods.
I keep hearing about people dying from natural causes.
As for vegetables, to me, organic seems to mean ‘goes bad quickly’.
@Geoff the Aardvark — Sounds like we were cousins. Only when we butchered our cows all us kids were in on the action. A local guy — I still remember his name, Gus Steiner — would shoot the animal and my grandad would drag it up to the barn and they’d hoist it up on a beam and that’s when we all settled into the hay loft to watch. And that’s why we never named our animals (except the bull, “Stubby” — because he was so compact). Farm life is a great life for a kid, despite all the chores. Even as a child I knew it was special.
We had our own milk cows, chickens for eggs and about an acre of garden every year. My grandparents also grew their own timothy hay, so we had the yearly haying season, too.
Organic is good, except so much of the cost isn’t in the food, it’s in the regulations. The hoops you jump through are often ridiculous and have nothing to do with better food or farm practices. Small growers, for example, can’t make any money at it.
Try Wagyu beef I like it a lot. Once a month is all I can afford.
I can see Bessie chowing down on her non GMO hay and turning to Hank the pig saying you want to go ahead of me, folks are hungry don’t you know. Hank replies plastic Bessie, plasti
…plastic that is where we will end up.
Eggs come from 25 yards away, hen temperature is near cooked already. I’ve cracked them right in my mouth….mmmm, really a treat.
Preferably I’d rather eat only what I killed or caught. Not practical, so I’ll eat what’s closest to not being screwed with.
BB — Having been born and raised near the Pacific and every kind of lake, river and creek, I will never eat farmed fish or seafood (except oysters).
I’m pretty discriminating (racist) when it comes to my groceries. I look for organic and I think it makes a difference.
Joe, I know it does. Agree 100 percent. Just grill Safeway Chicken thighs and then grill some Free Range Organic chicken thighs. Half the cheap stuff will stuck to the grill. Check out the egg shell thickness between cheap eggs vs Free Range eggs. And the color of the yokes.
I have a friend who grows Organic , and let me assure you they Laugh at it all. They’ll eat the non organic because it tastes much better. Eat what the Farmer eats and your’e good to go.
Plantsman
The key word there is grow.
Organic?? How would i get my daily dose of those preservatives and all that shit on the label that i cant pronounce?
Organic is best if you can afford it. I went from YEARS of eating “whole” 12 grain bread to loaves of fresh bread at walmart. That “healthy” bread WOULD NOT GROW MOLD. Was left out on counter during a 3 week vacation and when we came back, no mold. The wallyworld bread molds in 3 days if left on the counter. Its much better.
Plantsman, your friend is full of shit. I’ve done this before blind taste test and every time organic wins. Especially with poultry, eggs, dairy, beef, peaches, strawberries, blueberries, lettuce, asparagus, .. oh geez why even bother.
AA, Yep, several years back I grilled some Farmed Salmon. Hot grill, butter, Garlic. Tasted like fish mush. I think the best meal I ever had was fresh caught trout grilled on a camp fire at Hell Hole Lake. Did the same at Shasta for breakfast a couple times. Unfortunately I’m the only person in my family that likes fish. It sucks.
Organic shopping isn’t that expensive once you figure out the necessities. Stick to a high quantity of vegetables, a smaller quantity of fruit, a smaller quantity of meat, and a smaller quantity of nuts and seeds. Stop eating sugar, bread, pasta, and anything from a can or box. Limit dairy, it just gives you the shits. Increase alcohol consumption at all costs, it’s the only way to stick to the diet, but not beer just the hard shit, vodka, scotch, or tequila.
Farmed salmon is such an inferior product. There is a lot of fresh salmon out there right now, it’s a good time of year for catching and eating fresh fish.
Bad Brad. True, Animals are a completely different deal to me as well.
@Eternal Cracker P — Now that you’ve added some details about your diet, it makes much more sense — your improved health. Taking out processed food, especially sugar, makes all the world of difference. If I eat anything sugary in the evening, for example, I cannot function the next morning. It’s worse than a hangover. And sugar makes me seriously anxious and strangely fearful. I have no idea what body chemistry changes, but it does. I know it causes post-nasal drip (in me, anyway). Too many odd symptoms to ignore.
Most products at the stores are full of sugars and corn syrup. The beef is fed corn products, not what they would eat naturally. The cows are pumped full of growth hormones to get them to market faster. If you change to a more natural diet you will see a positive difference.
“Organic” is clever marketing.
Nothing more.
We have demanded cheaper food and US agriculture has responded by using more easily grown and harvested varieties, leaving out the taste component in favor of shelf life and ease of production.
Grow your own using, chemicals sparingly, choosing seeds that promise real flavor, and pass on the organic hoopla.
One more thing, if the guys here eat that grocery store beef on a regular basis, in a few years you’ll have a nice set of tits.
Liberals from California started this organic shit. I suppose all the people living into their 90s and 100s have lived that long from eating organic. If you think it tastes better and you’re willing to pay more, go ahead, but it isn’t any healthier if that is what you are looking for.
I’m helping my son with his green house/vegetable startup this year. All heritage seeds. Heirloom tomatoes have so much better flavor. He has a lot of peppers, squash and zucchini going in as well. Only free range eggs in my house. And, as Bad Brad points out do a twin beer butt chickens on a grill. The free range may be smaller but more flavor and less mess. Tyson brand drips grease and taste nasty. I’ll pay the extra money for the taste and lack of antibiotics they load our chickens, pork and beef with.
I don’t care if its healthier or not, but it suer as hell tastes better.
For some odd reason, P.E.T.A. just served me with a subpoena to appear, citing inhumane treatment of animals and first degree murder.
I’m not too worried as I think the statute of limitations has expired.