Does eating organic make you a jerk?

[Unkotare]

Interesting/amusing article I saw yesterday.

Does eating organic food make you a jerk? | Fox News

So, does eating organic make you a jerk?

 

[Douger]

You've read my comments here.
I'm an organic farmer.

 

[Unkotare]

Well, that figures.

 

[Katzndogz]

Eating organic doesn't make someone a jerk. They are usually jerks and that's why they eat organic.

 

[strollingbones]

i had this couple come up at the farmers market and demand organic eggs.....another ask for unfiltered honey.....i told them unfiltered honey would have dead bee parts in it.. they didnt understand they simply wanted raw honey....it takes 3 years and thousands of dollars to become certified organic....in nc

 

[edthecynic]

Interesting/amusing article I saw yesterday.

Does eating organic food make you a jerk? | Fox News

So, does eating organic make you a jerk?

Only if you are a CON$ervative.

 

[auditor0007]

Interesting/amusing article I saw yesterday.

Does eating organic food make you a jerk? | Fox News

So, does eating organic make you a jerk?

Nah, I think they are jerks before they go organic. I buy certain things organic, but not everything. Just depends.

 

[chanel]

I read that article too. I'll never forget my bitchy ex-sister in law telling my father that she would never "poison" her children with fast food after he offered to take the grandchildren to Wendy's. He was angry and hurt that she would suggest that he wanted to "poison" them. We had a group of about a dozen people, half under 10, and going to a fancy restaurant for a quick lunch was not an option. We all went home instead.

Anywho. I read this opinion piece about the NYC soda ban this morning, and it certainly explains a lot.

A culture that redefines food choices as moral issues will demonize the people who don’t share the tastes of the priest class. A culture that elevates eating to some holistic act of ethical self-definition - localvore, low-carbon-impact food, fair trade, artisanal cheese - will find the casual carefree choices of the less-enlightened as an affront to their belief system. Leave it to Americans to invent a Puritan strain of Epicurianism.

Business Insider on the rah-rahs:

“The panel on Morning Joe today was surprisingly positive about Mayor Bloomberg's effort to ban large sugary drinks at food carts, stadiums, move theaters, etc.

Host Mika Brzezinski referred to the drinks as "poison" for their sugar content and applauded the mayor.

Poison.

LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat

 

[amrchaos]

i had this couple come up at the farmers market and demand organic eggs.....another ask for unfiltered honey.....i told them unfiltered honey would have dead bee parts in it.. they didnt understand they simply wanted raw honey....it takes 3 years and thousands of dollars to become certified organic....in nc

Forget the dead Bee parts here, don't Bees defecate? So unfiltered honey is also Bee Sh*t honey?

Just yummy, huh?

 

[amrchaos]

I read that article too. I'll never forget my bitchy ex-sister in law telling my father that she would never "poison" her children with fast food after he offered to take the grandchildren to Wendy's. He was angry and hurt that she would suggest that he wanted to "poison" them. We had a group of about a dozen people, half under 10, and going to a fancy restaurant for a quick lunch was not an option. We all went home instead.

Anywho. I read this opinion piece about the NYC soda ban this morning, and it certainly explains a lot.

A culture that redefines food choices as moral issues will demonize the people who don’t share the tastes of the priest class. A culture that elevates eating to some holistic act of ethical self-definition - localvore, low-carbon-impact food, fair trade, artisanal cheese - will find the casual carefree choices of the less-enlightened as an affront to their belief system. Leave it to Americans to invent a Puritan strain of Epicurianism.

Business Insider on the rah-rahs:

“The panel on Morning Joe today was surprisingly positive about Mayor Bloomberg's effort to ban large sugary drinks at food carts, stadiums, move theaters, etc.

Host Mika Brzezinski referred to the drinks as "poison" for their sugar content and applauded the mayor.

Poison.

LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat

Our Modern Dystopia has food nazis in it.

It sound like fiction from a badly witten sci-fi/comedy!

 

[Mad Scientist]

Interesting/amusing article I saw yesterday.
Does eating organic food make you a jerk? | Fox News
So, does eating organic make you a jerk?

See, I read that as "Eating organic removes the drug like effect of the FDA Approved chemical food that turns you into a social zombie".

Since my wife and I have started eating the Primal Food Pyramid (Google that) we've lost weight, have more energy and sleep better. We spend less on food because we eat less of it and as a result, we produce 50-75% less garbage.

People come up to me at work and ask me how I lost the weight (40 lbs). If explaining to them what actually works makes me a "jerk" well so be it.

In five months I lost 40 lbs with no exercise. In one year my Cholesterol dropped 27 points and my and Triglycerides went from 461 to 102. Even my Doctor asked me how I did it. Hint: Doctors receive NO INSTRUCTION in Nutrition.

Mega doses of vitamin supplementation helps too.

 

[Unkotare]

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[High_Gravity]

Interesting/amusing article I saw yesterday.
Does eating organic food make you a jerk? | Fox News
So, does eating organic make you a jerk?

See, I read that as "Eating organic removes the drug like effect of the FDA Approved chemical food that turns you into a social zombie".

Since my wife and I have started eating the Primal Food Pyramid (Google that) we've lost weight, have more energy and sleep better. We spend less on food because we eat less of it and as a result, we produce 50-75% less garbage.

People come up to me at work and ask me how I lost the weight (40 lbs). If explaining to them what actually works makes me a "jerk" well so be it.

In five months I lost 40 lbs with no exercise. In one year my Cholesterol dropped 27 points and my and Triglycerides went from 461 to 102. Even my Doctor asked me how I did it. Hint: Doctors receive NO INSTRUCTION in Nutrition.

Mega doses of vitamin supplementation helps too.

I am curious what does your diet consist of usually?

 

[Unkotare]

Sounds like it's heavy on pretentious self-importance.

 

[High_Gravity]

Sounds like it's heavy on pretentious self-importance.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Interesting/amusing article I saw yesterday.
Does eating organic food make you a jerk? | Fox News
So, does eating organic make you a jerk?

See, I read that as "Eating organic removes the drug like effect of the FDA Approved chemical food that turns you into a social zombie".

Since my wife and I have started eating the Primal Food Pyramid (Google that) we've lost weight, have more energy and sleep better. We spend less on food because we eat less of it and as a result, we produce 50-75% less garbage.

People come up to me at work and ask me how I lost the weight (40 lbs). If explaining to them what actually works makes me a "jerk" well so be it.

In five months I lost 40 lbs with no exercise. In one year my Cholesterol dropped 27 points and my and Triglycerides went from 461 to 102. Even my Doctor asked me how I did it. Hint: Doctors receive NO INSTRUCTION in Nutrition.

Mega doses of vitamin supplementation helps too.

I am curious what does your diet consist of usually?

Fruits, Vegetables, Beef, Chicken, Pork, Fish.
Nuts like Cashews, Almonds, Macadamia, Walnuts. NO PEANUTS!
No Dairy except for Heavy Whipping Cream for my Coffee.
No Wheat, Pasta, Grain, Bread, Corn, Rice.
No soda, no artificial sweetners. No fried food, no pre-packaged baked goods either.

Basically if it wasn't alive at one time, I don't eat it. As a result:

Hunger pangs = Gone!
Gas = 90% Gone!
Tinnitus reduced, Vision improved.

I eat at least 3 eggs a day with sausage and/or bacon and some kind of fruit for breakfast (No OJ!). Then lunch and dinner consist of some sort of meat and vegetable. Plenty of water and coffee all day.

No calorie counting, no portion control.

 

[Unkotare]

Kind of hard to swallow, but some people seem to love it.

 

[High_Gravity]

See, I read that as "Eating organic removes the drug like effect of the FDA Approved chemical food that turns you into a social zombie".

Since my wife and I have started eating the Primal Food Pyramid (Google that) we've lost weight, have more energy and sleep better. We spend less on food because we eat less of it and as a result, we produce 50-75% less garbage.

People come up to me at work and ask me how I lost the weight (40 lbs). If explaining to them what actually works makes me a "jerk" well so be it.

In five months I lost 40 lbs with no exercise. In one year my Cholesterol dropped 27 points and my and Triglycerides went from 461 to 102. Even my Doctor asked me how I did it. Hint: Doctors receive NO INSTRUCTION in Nutrition.

Mega doses of vitamin supplementation helps too.

I am curious what does your diet consist of usually?

Fruits, Vegetables, Beef, Chicken, Pork, Fish.
Nuts like Cashews, Almonds, Macadamia, Walnuts. NO PEANUTS!
No Dairy except for Heavy Whipping Cream for my Coffee.
No Wheat, Pasta, Grain, Bread, Corn, Rice.
No soda, no artificial sweetners. No fried food, no pre-packaged baked goods either.

Basically if it wasn't alive at one time, I don't eat it. As a result:

Hunger pangs = Gone!
Gas = 90% Gone!
Tinnitus reduced, Vision improved.

I eat at least 3 eggs a day with sausage and/or bacon and some kind of fruit for breakfast (No OJ!). Then lunch and dinner consist of some sort of meat and vegetable. Plenty of water and coffee all day.

No calorie counting, no portion control.

Very interesting.

 

[Foxfyre]

Hint: Doctors receive NO INSTRUCTION in Nutrition.

Mega doses of vitamin supplementation helps too.

Congratulations on your campaign to become healthier. Mr. Foxfyre and I too try to eat natural, avoid so much saturated fat and trans fat, and buy food as fresh as we can get it, and lately I've been cutting back on wheat products that is producing some positive benefits. You are absolutely right that doctors too often don't seem to know much about nutrition and are far more likely to prescribe drugs to deal with something before allowing time for an improved diet and exercise to correct the problem. To me, that is just wrong as all medicine contains some poison. (To wit almost all the advertising time for pharmaceutical products is taken up reciting all the terrible things that can happen to you if you take that product.)

But though we try to live and eat healthy, we aren't fanatics about it. We have a family member who we adore but who is a pain to entertain because she won't eat anything other than organic, won't eat any eggs that are not from free range chickens, won't eat any meat, fish, or poultry that is not from free range critters, etc.

And then we see a huge article in our local paper as to how Whole Foods organic products are imported from China. How in the hell does anybody know HOW they are grown when they are imported from China?

I say use common sense and then live our lives and enjoy the good things in it.

 

[Douger]

The "organic" label has taken on a life of its own, hasn't it? Some people believe that organic farming is actually detrimental to the environment because it requires more land with less crop results. And even organic materials can break down to harmful substances. Organic isn't necessarily low in salt or sugars either.

Say hello to Rush, Coulter and Hannutsy for me.
I'll challenge anyone one earth, per square meter, of "table veggies" or fruits.
Yeah. That doesn't mean wheat , soybean, rye or some other empirical BS. I'm talking FOOD.
Honestly, I use a product on pineapple that says " organic" but I can't be 100%. I am sure it's far better than what your masters slop you with.