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To: Eric who wrote (18292)	3/10/2010 4:18:14 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 86355

"Don't come to Seattle or Portland. More and more folks here are buying organic food. In fact my wife won't buy anything else. " what a waste of money. PT Barnum was right.

To: Eric who wrote (18292)	3/10/2010 4:49:11 PM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

You bet I said it. Where do you see moral virtue from eating organic food? More and more folks here are buying organic food. In fact my wife won't buy anything else. Whole Foods, PCC and Trader Joe's here in Seattle are putting the "old classic chains" out of business (Safeway, Ablertson's ect). It's the biggest change in retail food that I've ever seen here in the Northwest. Thats a matter of consumer choice. Non-rational consumer choice imo. Its partly a way of displaying conspicuous consumption - eating more exclusive, more expensive food sets one apart from the common folk. Like drinking bottled water from France. For some there's also a semi-religious ritual uncleanliness issue like the kosher/halal dietary laws for observant Jews and Muslims. I guess for these the moral issue comes in by thinking that non-organic food is ritually unclean, like treyfa food for Orthodox Jews. For observant Jews and Muslims and for that matter Sikhs and Hindus, their dietary laws are based on centuries old religious laws. For today's organic eaters, they just make up their cleanliness laws based on silly claims about fertilizers, pesticides, GMO foods. But hey, if people wanted to eat only designer food, that would be their business. Asserting that some universal moral or ethical issues are involved is just silly though. BTW do you also wear organic clothing? Wouldn't the same issues be involved? If non-organic food is bad to eat, how about non-organic cotton or wool from sheep not fed organic food? That ought to be bad too. And of course, synthetic fibers would all be "Frankenfibers" and also bad. Ditto plastics. Now I'm wondering if your Tesla and solar panels are organic or are they made out of industrial Frankenmaterials?