Now you're organic...

[Guest guest]

Aside from being vegan, my wife and I try to buy organic products

wherever possible. Has anybody noticed lately that Frito-Lay and

other huge companies that were traditionally " conventional " , have now

started coming out with organic chips and stuff. Well, that's not so

bad. This will initiate another whole consumer group to organic

foods or at least put organics in their sight-line. Now that the

USDA has taken over organic standards, the big companies feel it is

time to get on the bandwagon. To make our opinions known, my wife

and I just continue to buy the products that have been organic long

before it was " cool " , " in " , or backed by the USDA. However, we

noticed at our local co-op that space is now being taken up by Lay's

and their " natural " fare. I really galls me that these huge

companies come in singing the organic song after ignoring it for so

long. I guess it's another chance to put our money where our mouth

is. Support the long-time organics and not the multi-nationals that

are suddenly seeing the light. What do you think?

 

Doug

[Guest guest]

fer my money, i'd rather hand my money over to a small producer, someone local if possible, then a big faceless corporation who is only doing organic because it is the trend now, and a marketing PR person said they need that extra 1/2 % of the market..

to me, while it is better to buy any organic over a conventional(now, ain't that a kick in the pants, conventional today is the chemical fertilizer pesticide fungicide monoculture farmer, which i-sically 60 yrs old, while, organic is ancient, yet it isn't "conventional"..strange world we live in...) product, if ya buy from the big bois, you are only paying back into a system which is quickly consolidating the food industry. Soon, the same corp may own the farm, the seeds, the processing plant, etc..100% of the system..scary...

buy local.....

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