Going Green....
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I'm happy for you.
Apparently there at least one study that says it is not healthier.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/08/19/organic.cooking.pv/index.html
I have my own garden of produce during the summer season. It definitely tastes better. I don't have my own cow or hogs or chickens to use for meat. Oh well.
It's not something to quickly jump on and completely go cold turkey on what your body is completely used to. Take your time with the transition and study up on health advice on how to tackle this new diet of yours.
It's not something to quickly jump on and completely go cold turkey on what your body is completely used to. Take your time with the transition and study up on health advice on how to tackle this new diet of yours.
This.
My beer is organic, that's "green" enough for me.
I'm pretty happy with eating more locally, rather than going organic. "Organic" is quite a ploy, at the moment - there are all kinds of laws about what can be called organic, and lots of companies are getting away with calling things organic (and charging an arm and a leg) even when they aren't.
I eat seasonally appropriate to my area, I buy beef and chicken from local farmers I know and trust, and I grow a lot of my own vegetables. Fruit is plentiful here, so I do a lot of canning and freezing. I think the best trend, the most sustainable one, is to eat locally. If you do that, we can all hold the local farmers that we know accountable to make good, healthy food.
Just my $0.02. Good for you, to the OP, for trying to make a change for the better.
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I eat seasonally appropriate to my area, I buy beef and chicken from local farmers I know and trust, and I grow a lot of my own vegetables. Fruit is plentiful here, so I do a lot of canning and freezing. I think the best trend, the most sustainable one, is to eat locally. If you do that, we can all hold the local farmers that we know accountable to make good, healthy food.
Just my $0.02. Good for you, to the OP, for trying to make a change for the better.
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StanScratch
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Yeah, what Dirk said.
Hit the local farmer's market, if you have one. Don't be afraid to ask questions, though I find myself getting a lot from the local Amish, as their's seem to taste the best, by far.
Quite a while ago, I simply cut out all fried foods - that made a huge difference. I also cut down big time on milk products...that also made a huge difference (after all, we are one of the few animals that drinks milk as adults - let alone drinks the milk of other animals. Not quite natural, that is).
Read the ingredients of everything store-bought. And even then, keep track of what you get and where, what tastes best and what is making you feel best.
As whimsy said, it seems that the stuff grown naturally tastes one hell of a lot better. It is so easy to tell the difference between a locally and organically grown strawberry and a store-bought.
Hit the local farmer's market, if you have one. Don't be afraid to ask questions, though I find myself getting a lot from the local Amish, as their's seem to taste the best, by far.
Quite a while ago, I simply cut out all fried foods - that made a huge difference. I also cut down big time on milk products...that also made a huge difference (after all, we are one of the few animals that drinks milk as adults - let alone drinks the milk of other animals. Not quite natural, that is).
Read the ingredients of everything store-bought. And even then, keep track of what you get and where, what tastes best and what is making you feel best.
As whimsy said, it seems that the stuff grown naturally tastes one hell of a lot better. It is so easy to tell the difference between a locally and organically grown strawberry and a store-bought.
Mayhem
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The organic thing isn't about higher levels of nutrition. It's about the elimination of the nasty stuff that gets put on the produce. And the free-range bit is about cutting down on the cruelty to the animals. I'm being a proponent of this, I'm just making the distinction. :hatsoff:
From now on I plan on eating nothing but Kosher vegetables, they are vegetables that are blessed as they are plucked, picked, pulled from whence they came. Aside from that you get the same results from FDA approved food stuffs whereas Organic foods cost more money, may use pesticides or god forbid harmones that are not FDA approved. Watch Penn and Tellers episode of Bullshit about Organic foods and you'll be surprised.
I do love to buy local the sad thing about my farmers market is if you go in and don't pay attention to where it says the things were grown your still not buying locally. The only thing in the place you know is done local is a few of the meat counters. I just go out to the county in the summer to family stands. Maybe a ton more driving but
1 I get to talk to the farmer or his wife and find out what they use on their veggies and fruit
2 as of yet there is no tax on small road side stands. Now the bigger ones that have debt machines do but its still worth it.
The use of pesticides and the like is what bugs me the most. I would cheerfully live the life of a caveman if I could. You will not catch me consuming anything with ingredients that appear on the periodic table. And I'm glad to say that I have no recollection of the last time I took any medication (tylenol et al). The body has its own mechanism of fending off illness and diseases, so I believe. Thank you all for the positive comments and support. Cheers!
Going green is the perpeptual fad, which shouldn't be a fad, but it continues to be exactly that.
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