I don't get organic food.
I mean, I like the idea of it, but I don't like the way it's become a "holier than thou" culture shift.
I went to this little get together, and I felt like a complete tool because they had me make the guacamole from two organic avocados and a package of organic guacamole mix.
How can guacamole mix be organic?
I don't know, but it found a way.
So there I stood, mixing this organic guacamole, and I just felt like a waste of a human.
Some thoughts I had:
Organic guacamole mix.
That's new.
It's like guacamole except fancier, somehow.
I eat guacamole all the time, and I never buy my avocados organic.
They're literally twice the price and don't look any better than the non-organic ones.
I guess there's a fine line to walk between investing in your health and being marketing prey.
It's a line too fine for me to care about walking.
But someone cared enough about the well-being about the people at this party to bring an organic appetizer.
I don't even care about myself that much to buy organic food on a regular basis, much less bring it to a party.
Maybe what I'm putting into my body is garbage.
Maybe I am becoming garbage.
Maybe I'm already garbage.
"I think I'm paranoid."
-Garbage
If there was one bandwagon I did not jump on, it was the organic food one.
Pilates, yes.
Green smoothies, ok.
Yoga mats, maybe.
Vitamins, meh.
Organic food, no.
I mean, has organic food always been a thing?
I mean, duh of course it has. But has it always been marketed as such?
I feel like it's just this semi-recent insurgence against big corporations, genetically modified food, and big time agriculture.
And I'm just over here like food = food = food = food = I'm hungry now.
I don't know why the idea of me putting wholesome pesticide-free substances into my body doesn't outweigh my reluctance to pay for it other than the fact that, in my limited 24 years of experience, it hasn't lived up to the hype.
Don't get me wrong- I'd take one of my parents' homegrown tomatoes over store bought any day.
But I'm not going to spend a dollar an egg just because the chickens don't live in cages.
The hype.
It's getting to me.
TWS
Preach
ReplyDeleteOrganic food = fertilized with animal feces instead of chemical compounds synthesized from known percentages of Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorus, and other naturally occurring elements. Ever heard of chemically fertilized produce recalled for e-coli?
ReplyDeleteI guess not, but I feel like a lower class citizen for not engaging in all of the organic-buying activity. Like they even have organic pet food now for crying out loud.
DeleteAt the same time, I don't think buying organic food would make me feel any better because then I'd feel like a phony because I don't think I could ever really buy into the idea that "organic" is always better). I just think that maybe organic only matters in certain things, like apple cider vinegar because it contains "the mother". Have you ever heard of that? You should look into it. It's a true story.
I have looked into it. I thought it had more to do with it being unfiltered than organic.
DeleteThat may be, but I haven't found any nonorganic kinds with the mother.
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