(quoted from post at 07:30:30 05/14/19) It?s a misinformation bubble.
In the 70s people forgot they need good food, and went for the basic cravings - sugar and fat and cheap.
Food processors complied, and made sugary fat cheap food. Consumers rejoiced, and spent their money on cars and electronics from overseas.
The pendulum swung and consumers realized the food they were getting was cheap and highly processed into gunk, and wanted something different but they were now so far removed from the farm they didn?t know what they wanted.
Food processors got scared. They knew above all most consumers want cheap food, but the beating drum of also wanting good food from a small but growing segment was hard to ignore.
So food processors and retailers hit upon the organic label, and got it pushed through the fed govt. these food processors could the. Continue to make the cheap sugar and fat foods for the masses, and developed a premium line of speedy trendy food that they advertise as good and healthy because it has some magic words associated with it.
Actually gmo grains and conventional farming produces just as good if not better foods; but the food processors and retailers have marketing figured out and they have lead people astray with their chatchy ad campaigns.
What is wrong with our foods is that they are over processed and cheap and sugary and fatty. All added and stirred together in the processing.
GMO or herbicides or organic is a waste of breath there is nothing to any of that. Nothing.
But it was a simple convenient way for the big global food companies to divide and conquer. They could get their main ingredients for their big volume cheap food eve. Cheaper, and create a premium, high priced small volume line of organic foods to fleece high dollars from upscale affluent types.
And the consumers are so far removed from the farm, and food in general, that they slurp up that advertising gimmick hook line and sinker.
As have you.
That?s fine, pendulums always swing.
Folks will come back to be center, and realize the organic hype is just that, hype, and what is good healthy food is stuff that is less processed, made from good healthy stuff off the farm. Organic is really meaningless, science can help us and can be good for us but we can?t focus on super cheap, super sugar salt fat food. We need to focus on good food.
The mid 20s age group is already coming around to that, and leaving your ideas in the dust.
It?s good that people care about their food, and their health, and eating good food.
The whole organic movement had good intentions but derailed itself down a silly avenue that is meaningless.
Expletive will get back tot he basics, and get over the hype of advertising many fell for.
It will be ok, there will probably always be a small nitche market for garden growers like to to peddle your stuff.
Farmers and bulk grains are bott he problem in our society.
Using those bulk grains (and veggies)to create poor mush is the problem.
Organic is beside the point.
People will realize that eventually.
Heck in 75 years they will forget and again be on a trend of cheap, fat, salty, sweet processed foods.... so it goes.
We know better, most of us, even as we do it.
Way back when I started my day before school with a bowl of Quisp. Little puffs of some processed fluffed grain that was probably 40% sugar..... my life would not be any better if it had been organic Quisp. Might be better if it was less processed, less sugar, regular grain.
It isn?t if it is organic or not. That?s a pointless advertising gimmick.
Paul
