Don't you hate it..?!
Don't you hate it..?
All these new trend about organic food..and healthy food and the stupids cooks on tv recommending the used of these so natural products and when you go to the freaking supermarket to get some freaking organic lettuce, mushrooms, tomatoes..bla bla bla...you have to pay about $20 dollars for the freaking pound?
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Organic food... pfffft. They're no better than regular food, really.
The general consensus at the University of Edinburgh is that the hype about organic food is a whole lot of excrementum tauri.
In two senses.
1. Excrementum tauri as in bull s***
2. You really don't know what's going into your food. True, no fertiliser, no "artificial chemical products" have been used in the production of your food. But bovine excreta and other stuff are probably present... and God knows what's in them. Parasites? Dangerous bacteria?
So I don't buy the hype about organic food, and neither do my professors (who have recently embarked on some form of "anti-organic-food propaganda campaign"... and I'm helping them of course).
You don't have to buy organic...fresh fruit and veggies are not all that expensive...just wash the pesticides off before you eat them!
Oh I hear you! Everything is organic nowadays. But when you figure, why not try it, you have to pay a pretty penny for it. That's why I stick to the regular products instead of organic.
No Thanks!
I don't hate it, but it gets way too expensive for my budget. I think they go bad faster, then that's a waste of money also. I use the regular fruits and veggies and I'm still alive and well. I think it's just a fad.
Its exactly the same here in the Uk if you have earn a fortune to take up eating organic food then again thats probably why TV chefs are promoting it they can afford it
no
agreed. im too poor to be eating organic.
Yeah, that sucks. They're healthy, but the cooks should realize that a product has to have the right price too, for it to catch on.
Honestly, if I saw a recipe with organic ingredients, I would just automatically substitute regular ingredients.
Yes, it sucks to pay extra, but its worth it. If you do some research on the pesticides used in commercial growing, it will open your eyes to the issues. Just think of the word pestiCIDE. CIDE means death, as in suiCIDE, homiCIDE, funguCIDE, etc. I dont want to eat something that is designed to kill something else. I grow my own organic veggies in container gardens and hydroponic gardens to avoid the extra cost.
It is ridiculous, I agree. What I don't understand is--WHY are they so much more expensive? Seriously... Does it really cost THAT much more to manufacture whole wheat bread than white bread? It's my understanding that whole wheat isn't processed and has no added nutrients. How can they charge more if they're doing less to it? As for organic produce--why do organic apples cost more (for example) than non-organic? They're not using pesticides, so they're saving money, right? I think it's ridiculous. They're constantly urging us to eat healthier, don't eat this, don't eat that, but when you go to buy healthier foods, you can't afford them!!
As a trained chef, I would advocate the use of organic produce whenever possible, but I do feel you are missing the point somewhat.
Us "stupid cooks" are not just trained in cooking-we are trained in the science of nutrition as well. This means that we have a working knowledge of the constituents of foods - proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins and fibre, and our concern is that a lot of people are eating microwaved meals from cardboard boxes, or are buying inferior produce from supermarkets, often at a higher price than they would pay if they bought fresh veg from a grocer, and fresh meat from an independent butcher.
Certainly, some TV chefs do espouse the purchase of commodities that are expensive, and often unavailable to home cooks (e.g. Portabello mushrooms - gorgeous but rare in the UK). With a little thought, however, the ingredients specified by these chefs can be purchased by the home cook without excessive expense, and often the ingredients for a meal can be bought for less than half the price of a boxed, microwave dinner.
Meat. If you have a local butcher, as distinct from a butchers counter in a supermarket, ask his prices, look at his meat, and ask for how long his beef etc is hung for. Vegetables - frozen veg is perfectly ok - Birds Eye do very well. Fair enough, a frozen pea will not have the nuances that one will get from a pea fresh from the pod, but frozen veg is much better from a nutritional and culinary point of view than anything microwaved from a box (eat the box as well as the food - you might get some fibre from it!).
People are not educated about food any more, which is why I am not taking issue with you calling us "stupid cooks". The demise of the extended family, the pressure that is put on parents to work excessive hours, the sandwich lunch, eaten at one's desk, the ease of obtaining fast foods from the chains that I encapsulate as Mcdonbuggerkingfc (if US, add Taco Bull as well), the advertising of culinary junk on TV and the pressure put upon children to regard junk food as 'cool', all militate against the cooking and consumption of good food at home, around a table, en famille.
In some cases, us Chefs do not help. The serving of morsels of food cooked by irate chefs in a pressurised kitchen environment - morsels prettified by an artistic swirl of a glorified gravy - as depicted by certain TV chefs in the UK, causes the average person to regard good food as both a waste of time, and being only availailable to the rich who operate a restaurant and hotel lifestyle.
This is far from the truth, however. It is possible, indeed easy, to cook good food from frozen ingredients. The judicious purchase of a few good cookbooks aimed at family cooks will prove this. Give it a go.
Well, yes, I do resent the price of organic food, but mostly cause I'm always too poor to afford it. I think it's a better product though, better for you, and I can understand that it's more expensive because it costs more to produce, and that's just how it is. I do buy organic milk though. I tried it once when a friend bought it, and it was SO delicious I couldn't stop drinking it. For an extra 40 cents per litre, I'll go for that! It makes everything I cook taste better.