Diving In
Posted in The Life of the Historian on 10/12/2009 12:20 am by Ronnica
First, Happy Birthday to my mom!
While I still can’t shake the feeling that the organic/natural food industry is one big scam, I have decided that I was going to start choosing to drink organic milk.
The bowl on the right is my first taste. Of course, I chose the chicken route and decided just to have it on my cereal for the first time. I couldn’t taste a difference, though the Raisin Bran didn’t taste very good (it was a store brand, though I haven’t had any Raisin Bran in a long time, so maybe I just forgot how hard it is.)
This has been a decision that has been a long time coming. Over a year ago, I wrote about how my anti-organic attitude was changing. While I was no longer compelled to ignore organic foods (I really should say foods labeled organic, as foods that are labeled organic legally can, and often times do, still contain non-organic ingredients), I hadn’t yet come to place of preferring organic items if it meant paying more.
Yet last weekend I bought my first ever half-gallon of organic milk, the first organic item that I bought though there was a cheaper alternative. The irony is that I’ve chosen to go organic in the one organic item that makes me giggle (I have a strange sense of humor, but when I read “organic milk” I imagine someone feeding the cow manure and withholding it pesticides). The reason why I’ve chosen milk is that I believe that there is some validity to the connection of dairy cows given hormones and girls maturing at much younger ages. Perhaps we’re wrong, but I can’t see what it hurts to pay maybe $25-50 more a year on going organic on this one item.
Have your thoughts changed towards going organic? Why do you choose organic/non-organic items?
