dojj

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8174482.stm

don't waste your money

RANJ

said that to my family years ago

dojj

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when you can buy 3 pots of yogurt for a Ł1 round the corner i don't see why we should be paying Ł1.39 for one pot of "organic" from the supermarket

Mike C

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I don't think anyone buys Organic because it's ever claimed to be any healthier. People who buy Organic do so because they're fucking do-gooders!

Diamonds.

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ive started to grow my own fruit and veg as its fucking way to expensive these days

lead_foot

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I buy fruit and veg from my local farm shop, cheaper than tescos and last a shit load longer and tastes a hell of a lot better.

TurboShed

Well, that's quite surprising I think. But, I always was sceptical of organic because it's something so damn easy to falsify and exploit.

Graham S1

Not because they don't like eating chemicals and pesticides?

Mike C

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In at least 90% of cases..... no.

I would almost always eat the "normal" equivalent and I've never tasted anything untoward on them. I couldn't give a flying fook what chemicals have been used in order to grow/make them or the ingredients!

ballin

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What a bizarre statement. Have you carried out research then to obtain this 90% figure, or is it perhaps just your opinion?

Of course most people buy it because it's supposedly healthier. what other fucking reason is there.

Mike C

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For exactly the same reason rich and famous people buy Prius'. To keep the tree huggers happy and make themselves look good and trendy.

RichieST

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I don't think I've ever bought anything organic. With the exception of baked beans, cornflakes and ketchup, I always get whatevers cheapest. Its all the same old shite just in a different box.

A chap I knew a few years back used to drive lorries for a large egg farm. He said there is sod all difference between a caged hen and a so called 'free range' hen.

fuzzy

i couldnt give a fuck what happens to anything i eat before i eat it. what does it matter if the chickens had a good quality life before its chopped up and eaten?

fiend

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What research/evidence did you use to obtain that figure?

Mike C

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I didn't. I based my statement upon the fact that the British public are getting more and more stupid each year, and it's nothing more than marketing cobblers.

Why else would people pay hundreds of pounds, for something like this



because they missed out when they were selling them in limited numbers in shops for a tenner or whatever it was? "Organic" people were queueing up for hours before the shops opened to get one of them. Why? Is it because they're afraid that plastic bags could leave a nasty rash on their hands, or give off fumes that could give them cancer? No, it's because they're a fashion accessory that the tree huggers will approve of.

What use would research be? If I were to read a survey (which I wouldn't because I don't give a flying fook!) revealing why people bought organic it would be a load of cobblers anyway! When asked, these people are hardly going to give accurate answers are they? Not when the most likely answers are along the lines of:

-Because Tarquin and Scarlett buy it
-Because it makes me look better than you
-Because I'm a ponce

MadMac

I can't afford to waste my bloody money on organic food. Never made any difference in what I could taste anyway, and I have long suspected that there is no difference. The review just proves it.

I will however quite happily pay for fair trade food. The poverty caused in other countries for our food consupmtion is mad.

Less.

Nope food is food and ends leaving us the same way

Mk1-stu

i had one of them organic yoghurt things the other day, wholemeal strawberry or something it was called, was fuckin well nice, bit pricey mind, but still tasted good !

Big G

Grow our own, Tomatoes, Cucumber, lettuce, Broccoli, got some Cauli's going in soon and still trying to get decent spuds done too.
Get a weird sense of self satisfaction by growing our own (either that or its just being a tught arsed northerner )