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You should watch the episode of Bullshit! where they get people who claim such differences to try and differentiate between local/organic and 'regular' fruit an
by timcederman 17y ago
You should watch the episode of Bullshit! where they get people who claim such differences to try and differentiate between local/organic and 'regular' fruit and vegetables.
- tptacek 17y agoYeah, that's nice. On the other hand, Cooks Illustrated compared off-season supermarket tomatoes to canned tomatoes and concluded that you shouldn't even bother buying "fresh" tomatoes. Who do I trust more, Cooks Illustrated or Penn and Teller? The issue here isn't about whether your food has some meaningless "organic" label on it. That's a straw man argument. "Locavorism" isn't about going to the market and buying the shit they mark up an extra 50%. It's about not buying low quality mass market out-of-season industrial food.
- vlod 17y agoYep.. nothing wrong with canned tomatoes. They are usually picked when they are ripe. I use them and they're great. However I'm partial to fresh food as well, salad/sandwichs/salsa.
- vlod 17y agoThats why I tried to stay clear of the whole organic verses non-organic debate. I would agree that it's probably next to impossible to tell the difference between an organic tomato and one thats been sprayed with chemicals, but thats not quite what I'm talking about. It's food thats grown 'normally' (in a field) and picked that day and sold to you, verses food that in huge climate controlled warehouses, picked way too under ripe and put in shipping containers with gas chemicals that cause them to 'look' ripe but taste like crap.