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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I donated several bags of beans to the Boy Scouts food drive that was just this Saturday. I'll buy store-brand cereal for donations.

Organic food > bulk food (bags of rice, beans, etc.) > mass-produced food > starvation.

The pressure is on mass-produced food, steadily it has gotten better. As more people buy organic food, economics of scale kick in.

[b]Let's face it these various carcinogens in modern mass-produced food are only known because we're not kicking it at 45 due to diptheria or cholera.[/b] [/quote]

This has to be one of the most idiotic posts I have read. There is not an increase of carcinogens in bulk food compared to organic , and carcinogens  don't cause cholera or diptheria.[/quote]

Me again.

First off, I do differentiate between bulk and mass-produced food in my post. Basically, bulk food are big bags of rice, beans, whatever vegetable or fruit is on sale that week, etc. Generally good for you and lightly processed, although there may be pesticide residue. Mass-produced food is highly processed stuff, like various breakfast cereals, spaghettios, etc.

I'm not sure why you're asserting I said that carcinogens cause cholera or diptheria. My point is that the flaws with mass-produced food are only known *because* we're not dying at 45 from diptheria or cholera. So we now have the chance to get cancer from the various crap in our food, plastic, etc. All in all, it's better to die of cancer from mass-produced Made in China stuff in your 60s or 70s than to die from the various reasons that people kicked it back in 1900.

I'm also not sure of YOUR point. Is your point that mass-produced food (I'm talking spaghettios and other ultra-processed food, when I say bulk food, I meant things like bags of rice, beans, etc.) is as good as organic in taste, lack of Bad Stuff, etc.? (Or alternately, that organic -- either farmer's market organic or Big Organic like Whole Foods -- is not worth the premium?)

Now you can say that environmentalists are proposing cures that are worse than the disease in many cases. I could argue that we could stand to spend less on electronic gizmos and more on better quality food. [/quote]

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