Comments on: Local vs Organic, and All Your Other Green Questions http://www.altdaily.com/features/food/dish/local-vs-organic-and-all-your-other-green-questions.html Creating and celebrating local culture in Norfolk and all of Hampton Roads. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:42:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Empresa de criação de sites, aplicativos web, lojas virtuais, manutenção de sites, otimização de site e muitos outros serviços web. A empresa foi constituída para atender desde o pequeno e médio empreendedor como as grandes empresas, ONG, Institu http://www.altdaily.com/features/food/dish/local-vs-organic-and-all-your-other-green-questions.html/comment-page-1#comment-28499 Empresa de criação de sites, aplicativos web, lojas virtuais, manutenção de sites, otimização de site e muitos outros serviços web. A empresa foi constituída para atender desde o pequeno e médio empreendedor como as grandes empresas, ONG, Institu Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:41:08 +0000 http://www.24sevencities.com/?p=12295#comment-28499 <strong>Empresa de criação de sites, aplicativos web, lojas virtuais, manutenção de sites, otimização de site e muitos outros serviços web. A empresa foi constituída para atender desde o pequeno e médio empreendedor como as grandes empresas, ONG, Instituiçõe...</strong> [...]Local vs Organic, and All Your Other Green Questions | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating local culture in Norfolk and all of Hampton Roads.[...]... Empresa de criação de sites, aplicativos web, lojas virtuais, manutenção de sites, otimização de site e muitos outros serviços web. A empresa foi constituída para atender desde o pequeno e médio empreendedor como as grandes empresas, ONG, Instituiçõe…

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]]> By: Tina Colonna Essert http://www.altdaily.com/features/food/dish/local-vs-organic-and-all-your-other-green-questions.html/comment-page-1#comment-9916 Tina Colonna Essert Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:14:26 +0000 http://www.24sevencities.com/?p=12295#comment-9916 'Organic' as defined by the FDA also has a million loopholes in it, particularly if you're looking at meat and eggs. So the word 'organic' does not necessarily hold true. Personally, I feel a lot more trust in my local guy who I can look in the eye and ask about his methods. Eg: We purchase our beef--what we don't raise ourselves-- from a farmer in NC who raises his steers on pasture and supplements with corn. Oddly, he has a really hard time finding customers for his beef. Ditto our grass fed lambs. We don't raise them in bulk and we sell them on the hoof so our market is limited to people brave enough to enter an abattoir's or to process the animal themselves. Personally, that's what I look for! I like to know where my food comes from. It would be nice if the produce at the Farm Mkt had something to indicate that it was grown w/o chemicals. I often don't buy produce because I worry about herbicides, pesticides and whatever-icide it is that hardens the skins on potatoes. I don't want to consume that, on any level. Thanks for spreading the word! ‘Organic’ as defined by the FDA also has a million loopholes in it, particularly if you’re looking at meat and eggs. So the word ‘organic’ does not necessarily hold true. Personally, I feel a lot more trust in my local guy who I can look in the eye and ask about his methods.
Eg: We purchase our beef–what we don’t raise ourselves– from a farmer in NC who raises his steers on pasture and supplements with corn. Oddly, he has a really hard time finding customers for his beef. Ditto our grass fed lambs. We don’t raise them in bulk and we sell them on the hoof so our market is limited to people brave enough to enter an abattoir’s or to process the animal themselves. Personally, that’s what I look for! I like to know where my food comes from.
It would be nice if the produce at the Farm Mkt had something to indicate that it was grown w/o chemicals. I often don’t buy produce because I worry about herbicides, pesticides and whatever-icide it is that hardens the skins on potatoes. I don’t want to consume that, on any level.
Thanks for spreading the word!

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