Sunday, November 30, 2014

When Eating Organic Was Totally Uncool

Eating organic foods is nothing to be ashamed of, disregarding whether it's cool or not. Being able to grow your own foods is wonderful because you know where it came from, what has been injected into the food, and so on. There are so many positives about eating organic foods that it's unbelievable people were ashamed of it. However, once organic food became a trend in this world it's outrageous how hard it actually is to eat organically. The prices, for starters, are very high; shouldn't the food that is healthy and good for your body be easy to get? Furthermore, not everyone has a place to be able to grow their own foods, and it may not be easy to find. Its sad to think that the country we live in doesn't actually care for our well being; pricing the processed greasy unhealthy foods at very low costs, and the healthy organically grown foods at astronomical costs. On the other hand, farmers benefit from this trend greatly because the demand for freshly grown crops is high. In the end, this trend makes you wonder if all the organic food that is being sold in these so-called organic stores are even 100% organic. If the demand for organic food shot up quickly the farmers must have used some kind of chemicals to increase the growing process, maybe even the size of the produce in order to get more out of it. So, you can never really know what you're eating, if it's organic or not unless you really do grow it under your own roof.

1 comment:

  1. I think it's always interesting to see how different views on what society should consider normal seem to change the overall behavior of society. When everyone starts to conform to accept one belief then it seems like tolerance increases quite the amount. I'm sure there are a myriad of things today that are considered uncool that many years down the road will be seen as a normal thing that it'd be strange for a person NOT to be approving of.

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