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motojen over 15 years ago | |
After recently reading Michael Pollan’s “An Omnivore’s Dilemma” I was inspired to begin an article on the idea of “Green Eating”. My plan is to explore the notion of organic food as “better” and raise questions about the environmental impact of the industrial food machine. I would like very much to hear what the Rehash community has to say on this topic. Some examples of things I would like to know: Do you care where your food is grown in relation to where you live? Do you care if your food has been treated with antibiotics, pesticides or other chemicals? Do you buy “organic”? Would you pay more for food that is grown on a sustainable farm? Please post your comments here so we can build a dialogue. I will post the article here on Rehash sometime later this month! Lomita (near Los Angeles), CA |
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Lisa G over 15 years ago | |
Hi Jenny! Thought I’d contribute. :) 1. I’ve recently heard that it’s better for the environment to buy foods that are grown locally, so if I see something that happens to be grown somewhere nearby I’ll generally try to get it (if the price is right). 2. I prefer that my food be left alone. (i.e. no pesticides, etc.) Although, I do understand that bugs and other creatures can find their way onto foods. 3. I don’t buy organic only because organic products tend to be more expensive. I would love to, but I’m a broke college student and I need to watch my spending. 4. I guess this one ties into me being cheap and price being a huge factor, so no. Hope this helps! Bronx, NY |
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Jessica F almost 15 years ago | |
I really care about where & how my food is grown. I buy as local as I can and do my best to cut back on food miles All the chemicals in food is scary. They say the trace amounts in a meal is ok. But when you eat meals 3x a day for 30+ years? I try to buy organic foods and also foods that are grown using IPM (integrated pest management) There are a few sustainable farms in my area that I buy food from. It’s a little more expensive; but actually not as high priced as people think. The closer to the source you buy, the cheaper it will be. Germantown, MD |
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motojen almost 15 years ago | |
Sorry I have completely slacked off and not followed through on posting my article. But here is one I came across recently which has inspired me to find a CSA to support in LA! Movement for Sustainable Food Systems Lomita (near Los Angeles), CA |
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MandatoryManda almost 15 years ago | |
I’m in full support of community gardens. Most of the vegetables I ate growing up were ones that my father had grown in the garden. Now’s he expanded to making things like pizza sauce and chicken noodle soup, but it’s still all home grown and made. This past semester at my university a group of students got together to plant a community garden. I don’t know that it’s been particularly productive, but hopefully we’ll get better at it. Irvine, Ca |
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User Deleted over 14 years ago | |
I’m a vegetarian. That’s all I can do- for now(: |
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User Deleted over 14 years ago | |
So, I guess, I’m like a carrot. [[; |
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motojen about 14 years ago | |
Last month, I picked up a copy of Jonathon Saffron Foer’s “Eating Animals.” If you have ever needed/wanted the ultimate push toward becoming vegan… well, this is the book. I have extra copies for anyone that is ready to make the move. Lomita (near Los Angeles), CA |
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horseparade about 14 years ago | |
I’m vegetarian also. I’m not too bothered about whether food is organic or not. Pretty sure the effects are minimal. I can see the appeal in using pesticides, etc. as it gets tiresome trying to take off all the catapillars from your homegrown veg before eating them. Scary to think that you might be eating catapillars… |
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horseparade about 14 years ago | |
Last month, I picked up a copy of Jonathon Saffron Foer’s “Eating Animals.” If you have ever needed/wanted the ultimate push toward becoming vegan… well, this is the book. I have extra copies for anyone that is ready to make the move. I am really looking forward to reading that book. |
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Kristin about 14 years ago | |
Usually when I go to the grocery store, I try to buy local first, then produce grown in the US, and then produce only grown in developed countries. While there are a lot of pesticides banned here (DDT, organophospahtes, methyl bromide, etc), these are not banned worldwide. And I try to buy from sustainable farms, I will not buy organic. I think organic is a great philosophy, we cannot feed the world on it and some parts of it are more dangerous than using synthetics. Organic produce doesn’t mean it wasn’t sprayed, but that it wasn’t sprayed with synthetic pesticides. Jefferson, Georgia |
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VivaTravel about 14 years ago Edited about 14 years ago | |
What a neat topic :-) After I finish the stack of books I’m currently working on I’d like to start on that one. As far as my food goes, I’m a vegetarian and try to keep the dairy and eggs to a minimum. My husband and friends love cheese so that can be hard but I’m working on being stronger about not eating it :-p We buy local whenever we can and if something isn’t available that is local grown we make the effort to buy organic. I don’t mind paying a little more for organic items, but I do get irritated if we pay more for items and then don’t eat them/ let them spoil. To avoid this we try to cook with what we have before we make a run to the store. One of my fav. recipe sites right now is supercook.com. It’s pretty cool! You just enter what items you have that you would like in a dish and it will ask if you have other ingredients…as you click the ingredients that you have, recipes pop up. You can even add in things that you don’t want in your food like gluten or meat, etc. Check it out! http://www.supercook.com/ The Woodlands, Texas |