Unconventional? Are you mad?
"The Minister for Food and Horticulture, Trevor Sargent, has welcomed new provisions aimed at rogue traders who pass off food as organic that does not meet the legal requirements ..."Minister Sargent urged consumers who know of traders passing off conventional food as organic to contact his Department." RTE
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I have news for you, Trevor (and RTE, in case you misquoted him). ALL foods allowed to grow in their natural form and unpolluted by chemicals, artificial colours and flavours, added hormones, or other unnaturally added substances are "conventional". If you mean to suggest that fast foods and processed foods are now "the convention", you need a new scriptwriter. If you think GM food is conventional, you need a doctor.
And by the way, don't go near a children's classroom until you learn how to talk about food in a sensible manner.
Categories: RTE, organic, food, Trevor, Sargent
4 Comments:
I know what you mean and agree with the sentiments entirely.
However, you may be on to a loser here. Organic foods were the conventional foods of yesterday. Combined poisons are the conventional foods of today, and part of the reason is that politicians have not stood up to commercial interests and insisted on minimum interference with mother nature.
Instead, they are abetting the poisoning of ourselves and our unfortunately hyperactive children.
For christ's sake, they can't even control the extent of unwanted packaging on the outside let alone unwanted chemicals on the inside.
They should all be condemned to a month's supersizing, every month until they get sense.
And yes, Trevor, this also means you. There's green and then there's green!
"Organic foods were the conventional foods of yesterday. Combined poisons are the conventional foods of today"
I'm well aware of what you're saying, George. But I think you're allowing too much for the younger generation. For the likes of you and me, it's not "conventional" to have McDonald's or pizza or such seven days a week. It's not only in my youth that I had fresh veg and unprocessed meat straight from the butcher. I still do today. So what I'm saying is that for Sargent to imply that organic food is "unconventional" is doing harm by perpetuating the idea that it's ok, and normal, to add gunk to our food.
As for packaging, don't get me started. E.g. I'm perfectly capable of buying three individual yogurts. I *don't* need four of them strung together with plasic looping and/or packaged in cardboard. It's infuriating.
Well said Nora. It is infuriating that, especially in Ireland a government minister shows his ignorance that it's only a few decades ago that we have real food and real food is both organic and conventional.
But then we are not served by governments today, we are ruled and enslaved by them and their corporate "friends", as the current situation in Burma well demonstrates.
aine,
With obesity getting out of hand across the "developed" (rich) world, in which we are now included, you'd think more would be done to improve the food we're offered in our supermarkets. At least in the EU, any GM food (or even GM traces in it) have to be labled. I understand from American friends that it's not the case in the US. Imagine buying food when one doesn't even know if it's GM or not?
Unfortunately "organic" does cost more, and I finally saw a farmer explaining one reason why -- if you use no pesticides you need more labourers to keep the weeds and pests at bay. I can understand that. But it's nevertheless what we need to get back to. And presumably if it was bought in bulk, the organic farmers would get a better deal. Not to mention getting away from those pathetic battery chickens ...
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