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[quote=Anonymous]I also agree that the "organic" label is not a panacea.  At one end, there are industrial-scale food producers who have watered down the term to where it means very little.  (What a previous poster called "big organic.")  At the other end, there are many small farmers and small conscientious producers who are producing food as naturally as possible, eliminating chemicals, hormones, etc., but who don't have the resources to go through the intensive paperwork and certification process required to put on the "organic" label.  So, it's true that the best thing is to do your homework, know your producers, and go small-scale when possible, to ensure that you're getting food produced in healthy and sustainable fashion rather than industrially processed food that's been slapped with a marketing label and a price markup.

But homework is hard, and not everyone has time for it.  In a flawed world, choosing organic whenever possible is a fair, rough proxy for choosing the least environmentally damaging or least health-threatening alternative.  [/quote]

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