Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Humor Assignment
During my early childhood years, my family wanted me to do some sort of sport, go out of your comfort zone to try and do something new. Little did I know that what I was about to do would impact my whole life later on: eating organic. Now for me, it seemed a little far-fetched since the fact that flies touching your food would make it healthier is a little ironic to me, but I went with it. It just seemed bad that you were eating food that could have malaria or West Nile Virus. Sure it was nutritious, but for me having sanitation on my food seemed more healthier than risking it to be more healthy since there are "no pesticides" and its "naturally grown". If everything was natural at one point, then why not just stop there? It just seemed logical, but nonetheless, I tried the food and was disgusted by what I had just eaten. It felt like there was no taste to it, and it seemed overpriced at the same time. So, for my well-being, I decided to try a pilates class just to see if it would help me to grasp this healthy lifestyle to maintain the most nutrition I wasn't getting from the juicy, tender burgers that were once a reminiscence of the past. As it turned out, it was just too tiring, so I decided to go with something lighter to burn off these new vitamins and nutrients that are now in my soul, like running. Feeling this new sense of joy, I stuck with it and it helped me bring that joy into where I am now: College.
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Pete, I think you're confusing several concepts here -- No pesticides to you means 'the food never gets washed' and 'tasteless.' Tasteless is an easy problem to solve, since it's not dependent on how the food is grown, but how it's prepared. I can have a tasteless burger regardless of whether it was factory farmed or free range grass feed beef. The difference lies in the preparation.
ReplyDeleteAs far as sanitation is concerned, this too can go both ways. In either growing environment bugs will land on the produce -- it just so happens that when bugs try to eat one kind of produce they die, and when they try the other they are allowed. In both cases, though, the produce is washed before it goes out on a grocery store shelf (you know that) and then approximately 20-30 people will touch it before it goes out the door.
Fun fact -- did you know all those salmonella infected tomatoes from a while back came from large, non-organic commerical farms? also, malaria and west nile virus come from mosquitos, which are found anywhere there's standing water, organic farm or no. Food transmission from those two diseases is nearly impossible.