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This is a real eye opener I highly recommend that you give a once over.
It's a good run down of the creation, incorporation, merger and acquisitions, and distribution of organic products and their companies. It's quite an eye opener. I'm told it came from the Arianna Huffington blog.
www.msu.edu/~howardp/org...industry.html
It's a good run down of the creation, incorporation, merger and acquisitions, and distribution of organic products and their companies. It's quite an eye opener. I'm told it came from the Arianna Huffington blog.
www.msu.edu/~howardp/org...industry.html
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Re: who is buying organic?
Sun, April 12, 2009 - 4:46 PMinteresting, but also overwhelming... lots of data on that page!
thanks for posting, Skooter
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Re: who is buying organic?
Sun, April 12, 2009 - 10:37 PMIs it just more capitalization / monopolization? Or actual response to public demand? I tend to think the former unfortunately. It would be GREAT if the Big Boyz actually did something for humanity as opposed to just serving the profound purpose of the Holy Dollar. -
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Re: who is buying organic?
Mon, April 13, 2009 - 5:01 AMTo only mildly oversimplify - Due to the way corporate law is written and the nature of the biz-gov relationship, the SOLE responsibility of corporations is to provide quarterly (read: short term) profits for their shareholders.
That means gov is the problem, not the solution. (Not defending corporations, mind you!)
The up-side of this is that when we all decide we will pay for green technologies, organic foods, & similar, those will be provided en masse (with the subsequent drop in price) by those striving for said profit.
That said, the long-term solution is to sever the ties between companies and government. -
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Re: who is buying organic?
Thu, April 30, 2009 - 9:34 AMI'm still going to buy organic whenever I can, for my health's sake, and to let retailers know it matters.
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Re: who is buying organic?
Wed, June 10, 2009 - 10:40 AMI'm buying organic, by all means. Each of us has at least 160 toxic chemicals in our bloodstreams already. Who knows what this is doing to our bodies?! You know, pesticides didn't even exist until the 1940s, so I've been told. We got along just fine without them back then. There are those who say the larger the food supply is, the larger the population is. Kind of a crude thought, but ... for what it's worth. I happen to think overpopulation is one of humanity's most dire problems.
I figure if I buy organic fruits, nuts, seeds, and vegetables and no packaged items, I'm doing well. That solves a whole lot of problems! -
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Re: who is buying organic?
Thu, June 11, 2009 - 6:37 AMExactly.
Buying organic is both good for the individual and good for the population in that manufacturers, wholesalers, & retailers then have a higher demand, so they spend more on organic & less on conventional, AND the price to the individual drops.
I buy organic and will continue to do so.
I also buy local whenever possible and grow my own food in my garden in the warmer months.
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Re: who is buying organic?
Tue, June 16, 2009 - 12:23 AMBest possible solution would be to grow your own food. I am working my hardest to get to that ideal. It's not easy,. It IS something we all should be working towards. In my opinion that is. -
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Re: who is buying organic?
Tue, June 16, 2009 - 6:12 AMNot easy, but not too awfully hard. If you don;t have available land, get pots.
We've got lettuce (3 kinds), zucchini, spinach, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, and more...plus a strawberry patch! We started a grape vine last year that's taking off this year (though no grapes, yet). -
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Re: who is buying organic?
Sun, July 19, 2009 - 12:47 PMI live in a small urban apartment without even a yard to speak of. So I'm sprouting as much as possible. It's so healthy to eat living foods and sprouts are just full of protein and life force. I love lentil sprouts, for one thing, in my salads! -
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Re: who is buying organic?
Thu, July 23, 2009 - 5:30 AMLynne - have you tried growing in pots? I have a friend who grows gobs of food in pots. -
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Re: who is buying organic?
Sat, July 25, 2009 - 9:07 PMNo, I haven't. I have my doubts whether anything would grow indoors. I really have no space outside for anything. I tried growing cherry tomatoes in large pots outside the front door sitting on the concrete but they dried up so often that I just could not keep up with all the watering they required. The sun is full on there and it reflected off the concrete.
Do you know if basil would grow indoors where there is morning sun? What I'd give for some fresh basil now and then. I just can't use it all before it spoils when I buy a bunch at the store.
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