Weekly Blogscan: The Organic Diet - Page 2

Part of: Weekly Blogscan
Author: DrPatPublished: Jun 24, 2005 at 7:22 pm 3 comments

Greg Tate of Ready Made gives us the detailed instructions to create the only appropriate sofa for all organic couch potatoes. The brain-child of Bruce Main, this grass-upholstered lawn chair is the perfect back-yard accessory.

Head Chef Charlie Ayers posted Google Daily Menus, until he decided the rest of the world didn't care what Google-folk eat every day. His recipes regularly featured organic greens.

Meanwhile, the Treehugger touts organic catsup as a condiment preventive of cancer. The actual agent tested was "Lycopene, an antioxidant that for years has been known to have protective effects against breast, prostate, and pancreatic cancers... found in cooked tomato products like tomato sauce and, yes, ketchup."

In May 2005, The Politic commented on a National Review item that posited organic farming is "simply not sustainable." The blogger used the item to drive the opinion: "There is way too much hype over how bad genetically modified (GM) food is. How small minded can these people be? The truth is that this propaganda was created simply to sell products in the over priced organic food industry." If the choice were limited to GMO vs. organic, we might agree with him that you can "Eat Organic If You Want People To Starve."

Or you could eat organ meats, although as Roast Beef warns us from his GREP blog, this can have disturbing consequences. He and his buddies went for lunch at a Korean Barbeque, but wound up eating more than they had bargained for. CAUTION: Not for the queasy.

This is the reason there is a market for organic food. We want control over what we eat, to know that no alien genes, pesticides or strange stress hormones will spice that dish. And even if it is fleeting or false, we seek to know whereof we eat.

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  • 1 - Tan The Man

    Jun 24, 2005 at 8:12 pm

    I'd like to think that all of the inorganic foods and stuff that I've been eating has made me into the hunk I am today.

  • 2 - DrPat

    Jun 24, 2005 at 8:20 pm

    What qualifies as "inorganic food," Tan?

    I myself eat plenty of organ meats (to boost my organ-ic vigor, y'know)

  • 3 - Lisa Bell

    Jun 25, 2005 at 9:41 am

    Check out an amzing organic viral movie at www.storewars.org

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