[lbo-talk] the paradox of choice/The Weight

Left-Wing Wacko leftwingwacko at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 05:21:26 PDT 2009


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM, andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I'm vegetarian (not vegan), health and spiritual reasons, and I shop at the local Israeli-Russian-Hispanic grocery in Skokie. It is not only cheaper than Whole Paycheck, it's cheaper than the supermarket chains. It _is_ true that unless you insist on buying organic whatever (meat too) at high end shops (and what kind of food isn't "organic"?),
>
> Surely you're aware of a regulatory definition with some more
> complicated reasoning than that behind it?
>
> --
> Andy

Yes "organic" foods are certified as such because they lack pesticides or whatever, but the moniker is still annoying in that my non "organic" broccoli is still very organic, even with the tasty pesticide residues, as "organic" broccoli.

Sheldon



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