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Originally Posted by valo403
I was simply responding to your comments on flavor. There is plenty of high quality non-organic produce on the market.
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You're right, there is, I ate some of it yesterday.
However, there is also a premium of high-quality organic produce on the market, and if you compare them blindly, like I have, it's pretty easy to taste the difference, in more than a couple of instances.
Case study, in season California organic strawberries vs. in-season non-organic. This hasn't been peer reviewed or anything, but 9 out of 10 people I tested enjoyed the organic strawberries more. Same with blueberries, bananas, roma tomatoes, granny smith apples etc.
Without knowing what they were, I served some delicious organic heirloom tomatoes to my parents and aunts. Their reaction, unprompted, was, 'these taste the way tomatoes tasted when I was growing up'.
You can call it anecdotal, or you can say that commercially produced produce is just as good, which in some (maybe even most cases), is true.
I don't understand what I perceive to be class-based hyper-sensitivity to the whole thing. It's been my experience that the more militant arguments come from the people who somehow feel maligned or insulted that their regular produce isn't good enough. I don't see many 'organics' making that argument, but it seems to be the perception from people who seem to be so against organics in this thread.
Frankly, I am not surprised that some that seem to be railing against the government in this thread have made no mention of the corporate welfare that government runs with the agricultural industry. Azure made mention to corn subsidies, but that is such a drop in the bucket compared with all the other bull that has shrunken our food production to a handful companies and killed the independent farmer/rancher/dairyman.
Thankfully, the organics industry has given artisans and food production workers of this stripe an opportunity to make ends meet and in some cases, thrive.