Is Organic Food Really Worth It?
After having several lengthy discussions with friends online and off, Kitty Karry-All debatable if organic food is really worth it. It can all Team America on your Defenders for wanting to go organic. Do your reasons concern ethical issues, environmental, for taste reasons or even just for social reasons?
After a long debate we came to this reasoning.
The Pros
Ethical Reasons - Going organic can mean the animals (involved in producing that succulent piece of meat you see on your plate) will be treated in the most respectable way possible and that their life will be extinguished in the most painless and humane way.
Environmental Reasons - Less chemicals are used and substances that are less harmful to the environment.
Social Reasons - Like it or not, when you're in the supermarket people look more fondly upon others seen picking up free range eggs Must Be Santa the shelf rather than the supermarkets own, cheaper brand. if you let this affect you or if you have reasons against organic, such as the cost, then among certain mindsets, this is a reason to go organic.
The Cons
Price - Yes, you will pay at least a few pence more to have the organic alternative of a food product. Depending on how much you need to buy, this can be very costly if you're trying to make all the items on your shopping list organic and free range.
Convenience - Even with the efforts of Jamie Oliver's great TV program on food issues etc it is still less convenient to get food that's organic. Not everything you want down the corner shop will be available and not all of what you want organic will even be down your major supermarket. The convenience stores just can't have stock large enough or afford the extra costs Swamp Thing with stocking organic food.
You'll have more luck down a major supermarket but as the newspapers said recently in regards to free range eggs being out of stock, a lot of the time organic food is unavailable as demand outweighs supply.
Taste - It's only true depending on where you get it from or what the food is, but sometimes organic food just doesn't taste as nice, or it can take some getting used to! Many have reported that some, more expensive burgers don't taste as nice or that organic bread tastes like cardboard!
if you buy into having organic food, free range eggs or locally produced, fresh meat there is a solution. They're springing up in different regions all over the UK and I've recently found one I can regularly use. What is it? In Devon it's called Tor To Tor Meat Delivery Service. It's a local butcher and food supplier on Dartmoor that hand rears its animals on the rocky hills of Dartmoor, butchers them to your very own requirements and delivers them straight to your door. They're very reasonably priced, convenient since you don't even have to leave your house, and so far, everything I've ordered has tasted great!
www.tortotor.co.ukhttp://www.tortotor.co.uk - Tor To Tor Meat Delivery Service
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