Huh, yeah. Organic don't mean nothin' at the grocery chains. Well, okay it does mean a little. But not enough to justify the expense or the trouble to even bother.
This is why I enjoy the farmer's markets around here. You get to talk to the people or employees of each ranch or farm and see how they treat their goodies. Which is where I'll be tomorrow! I'm doing a guest stint at the Fatted Calf's stall where I'll be slingin' meat all day. I can hardly wait!

Biggles

god, that is depressing to read. i knew there were other ways around the whole 'organic' label for farmers and produce, but also with animals and added cruelty on top of everything else? i guess i'll stick to organic soy milk. i'm okay with torturing soybeans.

Very depressing. I try for locally grown organic foods, but don't always succeed. Avoiding pesticides (and BGH in dairy) is critical while Teddy is so young, so I'll pay for it (dammit), but I'm very unhappy about the bullshit (not literal, dammit) involved.

as it happens, i have just started reading Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma, a present from C (thanks, C!) and I haven't gotten to the corporate organics section yet... but the agribusiness section already has me in a towering rage over the state of our food system in general. Argh.

and more specifically, the evils visited upon us by the use of corn to feed critters, and to create all manner of the incomprehensibly-named components of processed food. For a corn-fed cow from a feedlot to be classed in any way with a grass-fed animal is outrageously poor science, let alone policy.