Wow, I was going to ask about finding bell bottom pants at Walmart any more, but you beat me to it. :)
In the late 60s to the 90s folks fell in love with satisfying cravings, convenience, and time savings.
Food processors complied with that 'fad' and made mush that you could nuke for 4 minutes, was full of salt, fat, and sugar. It was the perfect food!
Well, until you ate it for 30 years.
And many people realize that maybe wasn't quite right, and that food dad was bad.
But we are a generation or two removed from gardens, and farms, and don't know how things grow. And so public opinion knows they want better, but they don't understand what better is. Or where to turn.
Food processors realized they were in trouble, and figured out some good PR. They still offer the cheap processed fluff to the masses, but they also created new high cost, high margin specialty foods, labeled 'organic.' They got the word out that farmers are trying to kill everyone, but if you buy this high dollar 'organic' stuff you will be fine. Just show us the money!
and so, the organic fad was created. And consumers, with no understanding of farming and such, were easily misled by the very people that led them down the bad path of old, to hate on farmers, not the food processors themselves.
It's a good thing really tho, people are involved and concerned with their eating habits. That is good. Buying local, the few weeks a year that product grows local, is wonderful. Being in touch with your grower is wonderful. but the small organic folk latched onto the same dollar signs the big food processors did, and also spread the myths that all farmers want to kill everyone, and the only safe food is manure soaked organic produce from my table...... becaise that is how the organic producer survives, on higher margins, on sales pitches.
Clearly, to any thinking person, the food source is not a big deal. Organic, conventional, it makes no difference. The food supply in the USA is well grown, and safe.
What happens to it after it leaves the farm and hits your plate is where all the issues are. The food processors. They answered the fad of the 70s and 80s, and now thry are profiting from misdirection of who to 'blame' for bad food, and in with the latest fad.
Pretty smart of them.
Someday the circle will come around, and intelligent people will realize it's how the food is processed and mashed together, not whether it is organic or conventional.
Certainly consumers talk. They were wrong when they wanted cheap fluff mush sugary greasy quick. They were wrong when they wanted bell bottoms, too.
And, they are wrong when they think organic is better than conventional crops.
It's all in how the food is processed and converted into food we stick in our mouths.
Grown local, and all that is great. I really enjoy the market garden when it shows up for the few weeks of summer we have up here. I stop there once a week. But it's not 'organic' that matters. I actually avoid the folks that push the whole organic, sustainable fad stuff, I have no time for such PR. I see through that.
But give me a good local access, a market, to local grown stuff, and that is a wonderful fad, I hope that part of it all continues for a long topine.
The other issue here, folks are talking about how wonderful their garden picked tomato is, compared to the crap in the store. And I agree with that. But, looking out the window at the snow falling down on mid April, it's gonna be a long time until I can go pick a tomato from the garden. If I want one today, then it needs to come from Columbia or a greenhouse from across the country and just isnt ever going to be fresh 'today' for me here. If we want to follow this line of thinking, then we need to eat stewed tomatoes 10 moths of the year, which are as bland and blah as the imported ones. Nothing fresh and wonderful about that. We lose perspective when we dream about the garden tomato, which is treat a few short weeks a year, compared to no to,ago at all if we won't accept the tougher, blander imports.
You get to pick one or the other, not both. Fresh imported from a long ways away; or available a very short time each year.
I'm glad I like sour kraut, under some of your rules, that's about all we get over the winter months!
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