Is organic always better?

You should let them know. I figure if you don't let people know there is never any change. Ya, I like the baby ones best. And I don't mind paying a little extra for them to clean them up for me.

We shop at Ingles all the time. They know us. I think I will do as you said the next time I go and I see him there. I got them cooking in the crockpot now with the corned beef. If they taste good I won't complain too much. They have huge bags of carrots but I wouldn't have room for all of them. I can get done fairly big bags though. I like those baby carrots too. Maybe I will get a couple of big bags if them. They are already peeled, cut and shaped. I looked at them but just didn't get them.

Hi RitterSport, I bought two big bags of baby carrots the other day. I put a couple of handfuls of them in my soup. It's probably done by now, but I have it still on low in the crockpot. When my other soup is gone tomorrow, I will wash out that big container and store this soup in there. It will last me for at least 3 days. I can't wait to get my new set of 3 crockpots for my birthday. I will have my vegetarian soup in all of them and then freeze the soups, so all I have to do is take some out of the freezer when I want it.

I love to buy those baby carrots to eat with salads and stuff. That was a great snack for you RitterSport.

hi dear PQ I love these baby carrots too but they are really expensive so I wont get them often.

No, you can't, but I'm just saying there are benefits. cost isn't the only factor. But in the case of these carrots, I agree, too expensive.

I can't spend a thousand dollars a month on food for the month. As it was it was over $500. My daughter panicked when she saw how much it was. I like corned beef. One was over $15 and the other was $17 and change. They are big though and I can get 2 meals out if 1 and make a crockpot full of soup which will last a few days. That one price for meat can be stretched to make several meals. We ran out of food in March and we spent about $400 last month. Stuff is real expensive here. The cost of a jar of store brand of tomato juice is over $2. I bought 3 of them. A pack of onions is almost $4. Ground beef is about $3.49 a pound. I got a lot of ground beef.

There's a lot that's wrong with everything we've accomplished in agriculture also. Pesticides being just one issue. Genemod corn, soybeans, wheat, etc., are wiping out biodiversity. Think of the Irish, and what might happen when Monsanto's soybeans that are resistant to Roundup prove not to be resistant to some natural scourge, for example. On the other hand, a lot of organic companies are owned by the very same big food companies that produce most of our other food. There are issues on both sides of the fence...

I wouldn't suggest that today's agriculture is the picture of perfection. Unfortunately we never advance far in this world without some things going badly. A lot of animals had to die in the quest to perfect heart surgery. And still it isn't a "perfect" science. It's very risky. Thousands of people die every year from heart surgery. And, of course, without the surgeries hearts aren't going to heal themselves. So it comes down, in my opinion, to the necessary risks and potential hazards of advancement vs. the faith-based approach of letting the natural state decide your outcome. Chance vs. choice. Genetically modified crops are, in many instances, resistant to common disease, do not require a lot of space or water to grow, grow more quickly, and have literally saved the lives of billions of people. That some bugs may suffer or that they still aren't "perfect" or a host of other potential hazards -- it's still the right risks for the proven outcome without the crops: Starvation. And higher prices, more farmlands required, more water required, etc.

Hi Materfish and Dawn. I hear what you both are saying. I had not ever thought about it going against the mass production of crops, bit I think you are right. I'm learning something here.

Thanks for this clarification. I didn't know that man made chemicals degrade like that. That's good news.

With all due respect, these arguements in this discussion are rubbish! Money buys facts, buys studies skewed to a pre-determind outcome & "rubbishes" the truth of the matter by independent analysis. Monsanto deliberatly & repeatedly targets the organic industry as a whole as well as individual growers. Just look at the outcomes of every single court case they've been in & make up your own mind on the matter. Washing does not get rid of pesticides - plenty of studies show it. GMO's continue to produce pesticides whilst in your body - they are designed to do just that. Check the patents. There is a lot, lot more involved in the value of organic fresh plant produce than meets the eye that consumers cannot tell just by looking at the stuff. I'm not going to ram all the facts down your throat because this is a collosal & wide-reaching arguement, but invite you to look into the matter for yourself. There are two sides to any arguement & people should be informed as to exactly what they are consuming. Labelling laws are deliberately very lax so consumers are totally dumbed down in this regard. I will never vote for the ghastly, under-handed practices of non-organic fresh plant produce with my purchasing dollar nor the blatant lies & mis-information that stems from the desire of a government-backed US GMO company to dominate the world's food supply & obliterate all existing competition by the most foul means that they think they can get away with. Many countries have complete & permanent bans on the stuff. Before the second world war here, everything was grown organically & there was no need for such a label. For more than two thousand years before, organic permaculture has been the only means of growing the world's food supply, owned by the individual farmer & biodiversity flourished, yields were massive & nutritional content - both measurable & not - were awe-inspiring. How many varieties of apples did we have just 200 years ago? Over 200... today just a few. And potatoes? Today just a few. Are we better off for all US agricultural advances? No. We're worse off than we've ever been before at any point in history with the highest cancer & heart disease rates ever, not to mention infectious & non-infectious fatal diseases.

I think washing the fruit and veggies will balance out the organic hype that its better. If you read some if the comments here you will see they say its all a scam and that there is no way to feed the masses on puny fruits and veggies on a grand scale. They mentioned what happened in Ireland. I think it's great when oeople can grow their own food, but that's not possible for everyone. It's terribly high and not worth the money, in my humble opinion. Maybe if I saw them reasonable on a roadside stand, but even they are high.

I always wash and scrape the peelings off them, so I don't know if in eating pesticides or not. These are so puny. They are just a little thicker than pencils. I won't buy them again I don't think.

Pesticides and herbicides penetrate beneath the peelings, especially of root vegetables. I wouldn't buy them if they're that small, but I won't buy "conventional" carrots.

I hear you Wolfie. I am on a short income and my online pay. I ended up oaying $535 for our month's supply if food yesterday. Of course there was probably a hundred or more on non food items too like dog food, detergents, cleaning stuff and bowls. I needed more mixing bowls and storage bowls and I got them.

I made soup out if the broth. It was so good. The meal is gone but I still have soup for a couple of days. I won't ever buy organic again unless its better and cheaper than regular.

I have noticed that if you wait till organic bananas are yellow to eat them they seem over ripe. I eat them when they are still slightly green.

I don't know why but SIL brought home organic bananas and they were half rotten. I wasn't impressed at all. I can't afford to spend more than I already do. I know lots of folks here talk about buying organic but I just don't think I can spend a lot more than I do.

You are so smart on every topic Artemis. I had not thought about our immune systems at all.

They cooked up nice, but I think I will just buy baby carrots next time.

That's what I am hearing too. I wish I had bought my regular brand of baby carrots.

I don't think I will be doing it ant time soon. I felt like a fool afterwards paying so much for a handful of carrots.

I bet all that stuff costs 10x the normal ones. Good for us, not for me.

Considering that we wash the fruits and veggies it doesn't make a lot of sense. Some if my commenters said its a scam to fool the buying public. I feel like a fool spending $6 for 10 measly carrots.

I guess different farmers would define organic in different eats. Some say they don't use commercial pesticides but use natural. Then others might say they have to be natural seeds and not commercial. Some say you don't use pesticides at all. It gets rather muddled where to draw the line between organic and inorganic.

I understand where you are going with the pesticides and stuff. We don't have that store near us. We only shop at Ingles. They have lots of stuff with fairly good buys with the advantage card. The carrots cooked really pretty and maintained their pretty orange color. It seemed like the orange color was brighter than regular cooked carrots. They had lots of fresh veggies that I never buy. I may start looking closer for other organic veggies if the orice isn't too bad.

It was no buy at all. $6 for 10 skinny carrots because I bought 2 bunches (not even the right word-bunches). I'll not do that again.

I don't know. I wash my veggies before I prepare them. The cost is out of this world high.

I wonder if our relatives will plant a garden this year. I would chip in and also help to tend to it.