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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone in my office grew up on a farm and has a cousin that now runs a pig farm. My colleague's cousin is making a killing selling "organic" pork, but apparently the pigs are really unhealthy/diseased b/c they can't be given medicine. I don't understand the blind faith that organic, excluding small farms, is automatically better - it has become a huge marketing ploy that no one can validate, yet everyone is so sanctimonious about it. It drives me nuts (but only unsalted organic almonds nuts, not smuckers organic peanut butter nuts or god forbid jiffy).
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Sorry, dude, but you were sold a false bill of goods. I grew up in farm country and this "a cousin of a friend of a coworker's brother's aunt" is lying -- probably to further some weirdo grudge against organic food (that you seem to share).

Organic certification is so hard to get that most of the farmers where I live don't get it, despite the fact that they don't use pesticides, artificial feed or GMOs, or antibiotics (and essentially follow organic practices plus even better practices, because most of the livestock where I'm from is free range and pastured). It requires lots of documentation, records, and annual inspections. It's a lot of work, so I have no clue why you think it can't be validated (other than that you seem pig-ignorant, that is).

P.S. your coworker is so completely full of shit that I have to add this: my grandfather was a farmer and when his cows got into corn, he had to shoot them because they would get very sick, bloat, and die. Big livestock industries feed tons of corn to cows (and pigs, and chickens...) due to subsidies, and that's why those animals (which aren't meant to be corn-eaters) are so sick in conventional livestock operations that they need antibiotics [i]all the time[/i]. A good free-range pastured cow or chicken, or a free-rooting pig, is eating what it's supposed to and will hardly ever get sick. My grandfather had zero sick cows other than the ones who got into the corn. People who don't poison the food chain have a right to be sanctimonious. Your idiot coworker and you do not.[/quote]

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