Organic Food
January 29, 2008More and more people want to improve their eating habits and want to live healthier. So some tend to buy organic food. I think bio food becomes more popular.
Organic or bio food is produced without fertilizers, pesticides and other chemical aids. Animals that are breed on “bio-farms” don´t get antibiotics and growth hormones. So organic food ought to be chemical-free and it is said that it contains more vitamins than conventional food. That also means that the taste can differ because no chemical substances are used to intensify the taste.
You can buy organic food in almost every supermarket but there are also special “bio or organic food supermarkets” which sell only bio products. I think those special supermarkets occur more often since a few years. It becomes more popular although it is usually more expensive than conventional food.
I sometimes buy bio products, I think it is healthier but also because there is no intensive lifestock farming on bio farms. So bio products can offer you better quality and a good conscience.
What do you think of organic food? Do you buy it and why?
jenni
I used to buy a lot of organic products. Especially in early summer when we have the time for strawberries – I know you can buy them nearly the whole year, but those summer strawberries actually taste like real strawberries. I once read in the newspaper that strawberries from Spain and other foreign countries are usually covered with a lot of pesticides, which you even can’t simply wash away at home. So I started buying strawberries that were grown in Germany and were bio organic. They cost more than twice as much, but I thought I did it for my health. Then the next summer I read reports on these “healthy” strawberries and got to know that about 50% of those products which called themself organic contained just the same pesticides as “normal” food. That really shocked me… How can you be sure what you eat by now?
Now I buy just what I think looks best.
The only thing I still keep on buying are “bio eggs” or eggs from “Bodenhaltung”, because the pictures shown on TV of those poos chicken in these tiny cages were just too much for me.
Common selection creteria are (sorted by importance): 1. taste 2. price 3. look
Epsecially when I don’t have much time to buy things, my createria are similar. But you’re absolutely right: There are many things concerning food in general you can’t be sure about…
Is the breeding of the animals appropriate to the species? Were pesticides/fungicides used that may be dangerous for humans? …?
In my opinion, we have to trust the labels (as long as you don’t want to change to self-supply
). I know, this is kind of unsatisfying because of all the articles about the quality of so called “organic” food. I guess we really need new and more strict laws and controls to change the situation.