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What Southern Folks Eat: Does ‘organic’ really matter?
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1079" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.starfl.com/news/20190425/what-southern-folks-eat-does-organic-really-matter" target="_blank"><strong>What Southern Folks Eat: Does ‘organic’ really matter? - The Star</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Don’t eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto</strong></p><p></p><p>Down here in the warm, humid climate of the South, vegetables and fruits have a fairly long growing season. What a great blessing for us! We have a nice long tomato season, peaches are sweet and juicy for a couple months, and yellow squash and zucchini seem to proliferate...well...nearly eternally.Not that I’m complaining!</p><p></p><p>Now, we all know that doctors and nutritionists say that we should all eat more fruits and vegetables, and boy, that’s a wonderful prescription. We don’t mind that one bit, right?</p><p></p><p>However, when we walk into the grocery store we are faced not only with the decision of what vegetables and fruits to eat, but also we have to choose between organic and conventional produce. Should we choose everything organic and pay the extra money? Or is “organically grown” a gimmick and not worth it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1079, member: 1"] [B] [/B][URL='https://www.starfl.com/news/20190425/what-southern-folks-eat-does-organic-really-matter'][B]What Southern Folks Eat: Does ‘organic’ really matter? - The Star[/B][/URL] [B]Don’t eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto[/B] Down here in the warm, humid climate of the South, vegetables and fruits have a fairly long growing season. What a great blessing for us! We have a nice long tomato season, peaches are sweet and juicy for a couple months, and yellow squash and zucchini seem to proliferate...well...nearly eternally.Not that I’m complaining! Now, we all know that doctors and nutritionists say that we should all eat more fruits and vegetables, and boy, that’s a wonderful prescription. We don’t mind that one bit, right? However, when we walk into the grocery store we are faced not only with the decision of what vegetables and fruits to eat, but also we have to choose between organic and conventional produce. Should we choose everything organic and pay the extra money? Or is “organically grown” a gimmick and not worth it? [/QUOTE]
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