Organic Goes Too Far
Sometimes we find something that just seems a little bit “out there” – as in just going too far to be considered within reason and logic.
A Vancouver grocery store now has a sign posted that reads: “Dear Customers, Please be advised that our Bread Slicer is used for Both Conventional and Organic Items.”
Does anyone really think their organic bread could get “contaminated” by non-organic morsels from a bunch of automated knives?
Besides, there’s very little (if any) difference in nutrition between organically grown and conventionally grown foods, as a recent review by Great Britain’s Food Standards Agency determined. And as more people are beginning to note, organic is a marketing tool – and just a fancy way of saying “expensive”.
