Re: Organic honeymoon period over????

[Xavier Dequaire <xavier@futurich.com>]

There is much truth in what Yaya points out.
The food costs have to be set in a larger perspective: your health is related to what
you eat, and you can adjust your food to improve your health.
in other words maintainance is cheaper than fixing,
and if a good maintainance of our health, costs more than a poor maintainance,  fixes
are always much more expansive in addition to the fact that being ill has other
consequences than economical ones
eating organic food help you keeping a better health
Beyond that, buying organic helps to supports the enviroment, where you live, limiting
the amount of poisons in nature hence supporting also your health...

to take another example from France, people can get to the supermarket and buy very
very cheap porc meat.
Intensive industrial porc production is the main reason for at underground water has
been polluted and is not fitted for consumption.
So the same person buying the cheap porc is obliged to buy very expansive bottled
water that has been transportedon several hundred km.

Had the pork been organical, it might have been more expansive, but the tap water
could be drinkable and the total bill of the consumer much lower.

Organic gardening is way more effective than industrial agriculture,
to take a simple example I know a guy producing up to 19 kg onions on a square meter,
and has been doing so for many years on exacly the  same spot... organically
normal numbers are 2-5 kg...

there is still some work to be done to explain the hollistics of all,
and the long term reality of life,
or I could say the long term perspective of the good life, though the good life is
always in the happening instant (Carpe Diem)
act locally  think global

peace

Xavier

Yaya Balinci wrote:

> The real cost of food IS shocking if you are used to cruising the aisles of
> a "super" market. Supermarkets were the beginning of discount chemical
> produced foods. Anyone consuming from the 30's onwards has been
> habituated/programmed to believe food should actually be that cheap. Not to
> mention that some food is out of season and should not be eaten anyways
> during that time of year. There is also the fact that since i have bought
> organic food and taken control and responsibility of my health I have never
> been to the doctor and I do not pay for medical insurance. That makes
> organic food much cheaper if you take your medical bills into account for
> eating non-organic foods. It actually is cheaper for me to support the local
> organci food coop. Here in East Vancouver there is three local merchants
> that sell organic foods on one corner! When I began eating organic food in
> university it was for ethical reasons not because of my own health directly.
> I lived below the poverty line and went to university. I still could afford
> to eat organic foods 100% while living below the poverty line! I just
> couldn't drink as much beer.
>
> The organic movement has never really had a white wedding in this poor
> excuse for a culture let alone a honeymoon!
>
> Michael Hollihn,
> Sustainable Forest-Farm-Garden Design
> Ecosystem Mapping For Sustainable Production of foods and materials,
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