Interesting article on Forbes. Points. 1. Organic food hasn't been proved to be better for you. 2. Organic Farming isn't kinder and gentler to the earth. 3. The whole pesticide thing is apparently overblown. Organic Farming
Not very surprising, I do marketing as well as farming and you would be surprised by the thought process the neighborhood grocery chain has on organic farming. It's all about marketing "baby", if you put it on the shelf they will come.... The scary thing with the organic "only" militia is how militant they are at times and how it skates very close to a cultish mentality. There are so many layers to organic farming that it comes close to the tax regulations in proportion of manuals on what is and is not organic. Food is food end of story and it has to be fertilized, watered, sprayed and have some form of weed control be it by hand or chemical. We have looked into organic farming and I have many friends that do it. Just because it says Omni approved does not mean that a natural method is safer to the public or environment than what I purchase with my pesticide license. Think about it, farmers do not want to spray chemicals on their crops unless it is absolutely necessary. The cost is incredible to do this plus you have to then spend money to apply it. If the consumer becomes ill from what you have provided from your field you lose any thought of revenue and have lawsuits looking at you. Plus we are bringing this home to our families to eat as well. I have been in this long enough to have watched the transition of pesticides become very friendly to the public and to the people applying it and harvesting the crop. The advancements in technology in agriculture in our country is unmatched by any other country in the world. It doesn't get talked about because our society takes it for granted that food will always be sitting inside the comfort of the climate controlled grocery store...
Hey Terry, Did I tell you that we shipped our peaches into Texas this spring. We moved them into the H.E.B. grocery chain into the Houston and San Antonio areas.
Yes you did, I went to the HEB close to me and got me some Fla Peaches...they were tasty. Texas peach crop was poor this year. I wonder if that is why they went after your Fla peaches?
Well hopefully the ones you purchased were not the ones where that pesticide tank started leaking.... :shock: :shock: If they were tough, small and tasteless some of that Georgia fruit must have gotten in there... Thanks for your purchase..