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> This is an area where I'm torn. Should I be buying only organic produce or should I be spending the same money and energy on eating less sugar and more of any

> This is an area where I'm torn. Should I be buying only organic produce or should I be spending the same money and energy on eating less sugar and more of any kind of produce? Well, if I were you, I would do both, and I would stop working a full-time job so that I could focus on raising my kids. I would also stop trusting the FDA or any other large org, because they have shown themselves to be untrustworthy and corruptible.

ricardobeat 5y ago
Stoping to work a full time job and buying only organic produce are kinda mutually exclusive.
- tharkun__ 5y ago
  Buying organic: yes. Eating organic: no. At least in the US and Canada this should work. Of course not everyone can do it and it's not for everyone. You gotta live in the right place and know the right stuff. You want some acreage. That's where you'll grow your organic veggie garden. This doesn't need too much of the acreage but you also want woodlands that you can get your fire wood from sustainably. You also want to be close enough to somewhere you can legally hunt and know how to hunt. Then you home school the kids. Et voila! If you want an example of someone that is at least close enough to this (AFAIK they live 50% of the year w/ their parents in Florida and 50% is what I described above) look into the guy that won season 8 of Alone.
  - ricardobeat 5y ago
    Yeah, that is a nice lifestyle but unattainable for 99.999% of humanity. And not very sustainable in terms of land and resources unless you do it as a community. Even then, you could only sustain a tiny, tiny fraction of earth’s current population like this.
    - forgotmypw17 5y ago
      I never suggested it is sustainable for anyone else but one individual, the hypothetical individual being a combination of your situation and my perspective and experience applied to my admittedly limited understanding of your situation.

ricardobeat 5y ago

Stoping to work a full time job and buying only organic produce are kinda mutually exclusive.

tharkun__ 5y ago
Buying organic: yes. Eating organic: no. At least in the US and Canada this should work. Of course not everyone can do it and it's not for everyone. You gotta live in the right place and know the right stuff. You want some acreage. That's where you'll grow your organic veggie garden. This doesn't need too much of the acreage but you also want woodlands that you can get your fire wood from sustainably. You also want to be close enough to somewhere you can legally hunt and know how to hunt. Then you home school the kids. Et voila! If you want an example of someone that is at least close enough to this (AFAIK they live 50% of the year w/ their parents in Florida and 50% is what I described above) look into the guy that won season 8 of Alone.
- ricardobeat 5y ago
  Yeah, that is a nice lifestyle but unattainable for 99.999% of humanity. And not very sustainable in terms of land and resources unless you do it as a community. Even then, you could only sustain a tiny, tiny fraction of earth’s current population like this.
  - forgotmypw17 5y ago
    I never suggested it is sustainable for anyone else but one individual, the hypothetical individual being a combination of your situation and my perspective and experience applied to my admittedly limited understanding of your situation.