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[quote=Anonymous]We do almost all our shopping at MOM.  (Used to be "My Organic Market," now they call it "MOM's Organic Market.")  It's great.  Everything in the store is organic, so you don't have to read the labels on everything to figure out if it's conventional or organic like at WF.  It's also significantly cheaper than WF.

Two differences cut the other way between MOM and WF.  One is meat and fish selection.  At WF, it's everything you could ever want.  At MOM, it's very narrow.  What they have is all good stuff and sustainable stuff, but it's expensive and there's not much of it.  At WF, I wonder whether it's all as sustainable as I'd like, but at least it's labeled so I can do my own figuring, and you can find pretty much anything you want.  The other difference is 365 brand--the one way to save money at WF.  They don't have that at MOM, so you do end up paying more for organic brand stuff like canned food.

If you really want quality pasture-raised meat and eggs, they have them at many of the farmer's markets in our area.  You can find them at Dupont, Vermont Ave., Rockville Pike, Bethesda Elementary, I imagine many others.  That's the best way to be sure the animals lived natural lives--roaming freely, eating their regular diet, being treated humanely (in addition to being free of hormones and antibiotics).  It's expensive, so to make the leap you also have to switch to eating meat less often and finding ways to stretch it.  Which is what we should be doing, according to the health writers.  
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