Is Organic Food Scary?
The funniest (well, maybe not so funny) thing happened this past weekend while I was in Charleston.
On Saturday, I decided to go to the local book store and browse through a few books and magazines. Before finding myself a comfy chair in the store, I waited on line at the book store café to grab an herbal tea.
Not 2 minutes into my standing on line did I hear this conversation behind me.
“Daddy. I want this chocolate milk”
“No way. That’s organic. You don’t want that!”
“Why Daddy? What’s organic?”
“Don’t worry about it. You don’t want it.”
Hmmmm…I couldn’t help but wonder why the father would have said that.
I really wanted to go into my Organic Food is Great dissertation. But I decided to keep my comments (and my presentation) to myself. (Even though this took just about all the self control I had).
It almost seemed like this father was afraid of organic food. Could this be possible? Are people afraid that eating one morsel of organic food is going to somehow instantly initiate them into the organic food cult where you’re only allowed to wear sandals made from tree bark and deodorant is prohibited?
I swear I have had people say to me “Well, you can’t be that organic because you wear make-up and you don’t smell.”
What? That’s not what organic means at all! (FYI – I don’t leave the house without mascara or without putting on deodorant, but that’s my personal preference.)
All it means is that the food or the product has been grown the way mother nature intended: without the use of chemicals, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. In other words, naturally!
Do you think maybe he was afraid of the price? Well, he was actually buying a Red Bull drink, which was much more expensive than the organic milk his son was requesting.
Organic does not automatically mean “break the bank”. Many times when I compare the price of the organic food versus the conventional food, they are only a few cents different. In the case of the bag of organic carrots I bought today for my lunch, they were the exact same price as the conventional ones. Imagine that!
If anything about the word “organic” makes you want to jump and run the other way, be sure to read my previous blog post “My Million Dollar Grocery Bill”
It will help you understand exactly why organic food is all the rave these days and what you can do to make organic living easy, simple and not so scary!
In health and happiness,
Isabel De Los Rios
www.TheDietSolutionProgram.com
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