What kind of sandwich should i make?

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Originally Posted by ceres

Organic food just means they can charge you extra for each item.

That's because a field of crops without fertilization, etc. produces less food. For the farmer to get the same profit for organics she has to charge more per item.

If an animal is fed only organic feed (which requires the feed to be made from all organic ingredients) it costs more over the course of raising it. As with all other things in a capitalistic economy, that cost is passed on to the consumer.

It's much cheaper to pump everything full of artificial stuff to make it grow bigger, faster, and more of it, regardless of health and environmental impacts.

Originally Posted by ceres

Just because the word natural or organic is typed on the packaging, doesn't make all the bad stuff magically dissapear.

You're right. It means the bad stuff never makes it into the food to begin with. No fertilizers, no pesticides, no genetic modifications. This has the side benefit of making farmers farm smarter, i.e. rotating crops to keep pests away.

Originally Posted by ceres

Mayonnaise has plenty of fat whether it's organic or not.

Your body requires some fat in its diet. You have to get it from somewhere, and using the right oils(s) means you can get all unsaturated fats. Good stuff.

Originally Posted by ceres

And that whole wheat pita bread would be just as healthy without the organic label (and save you a nice amount of money).

Wrong. There is nothing healthy - or even safe - about fertilizers, pesticides, chemical processing, etc.