I'm looking for somewhere that sells organic fruit & vegetables in/near Ropes Crossing NSW.
The local Coles doesn't sell it, and I'm wondering where we can get organics that are cheap and good quality (with wide variety).
Is there anywhere in St Marys, Marsden Park, Mt Druitt, Jordan Springs, Cranebrook, Erskine Park, or Penrith that would sell organics?
The point of organic food is that fools will pay twice as much for it due to believing that non-organic food has something wrong with it.
True.
Non organic food has 2 things wrong with it, first it is full of pesticides, organic food usually has pesticides as well, but the order of magnitude that non organic food has is much greater, at least several times.
The second thing is yield, there is a much greater yield for non organic, which means the nutritional value of each piece of fruit is much less.
For example in 1950, you might get 2 tonnes of apples from 1 hectare piece of land. Today you get 10 tonnes equivalent. The nutrition provided on that 1 hectare of land is identical to 1950 as it is today. So instead of 100% of that nutritional value provided by that fixed land of 1 hectare being put into 2 tonnes of apples, its now put into 10 tonnes. That means you are getting 1/5th the nutrition from 1 apple today than you would have in 1950. Now obviously those numbers are not exact, its just comparative.
Eat five apples instead of one. Problem solved.
So instead of 100% of that nutritional value provided by that fixed land of 1 hectare being put into 2 tonnes of apples, its now put into 10 tonnes.
That's ridiculous. The yield is higher due to modern farming practices and better quality fertilizers than what we had back in the 50's.
Think about it, the yield being higher is definitely due to modern farming practices, however just cause you got more yield, what do you think that does to the quality of the product. It doesn't mean quality is maintained with the quantity. In fact when you increase quantity it usually means quality suffers. Talk to your grand parents, and ask them how fruit and vegetables tasted 70 years ago. There is a reason people say food tastes nowhere near as good today as it did back then.
Any evidence for that at all? Seems very unscientific.
We can get more crops from the same area of land due to improved farming techniques such as better fertilizers which contain more nutrients, an apple is an apple it needs nutrients to exist/survive too if it only gets 1/5 of what it needs it'll die and you'll get less apples from the same area of land… plus not all of a plants nutrients come from the soil.
If we consider climate and water supply to be constant, the only variable is the nutritional aspect of the land the tree grown in. Talk to a farmer, they do this in practice all the time, if you have an apple tree, and it blossoms more, making lets say 100 apples, if you cull 50 apples, and allow the other 50 apples to get more water/nurtients from the soil, photosynthesis, you will find the remaining 50 apples are bigger, juicier, taste better, have a nicer flesh consistency and more weight per volume. They actively do this in japan, thats why fruit costs 10x more there than it does here. Obviously nutrition for the tree comes from soil/water/and the sun. However if the land is arid and has no nutrition because its been overfarmed the tree will die, and the other 2 aspects of nutrition will make no difference at all.
i have a severe allergy to the wax and chemicals they use to treat fruit after its been harvested.
so i have to wash the fruit very thoroughly and even then i get sick sometimes
so thats why i buy organic fruit.
Without knowing your specific allergies, more so directed to the people that assume organic = healthier,
Here in Aus, as there is no regulation on food labelled as organic, fruit often labeled as organic still have a wax coating, although they often use a substitute to petroleum based wax, unfortunately, not always though.
Organic food growers still use pesticides to treat the product, they are "natural pesticides" apparently, inherently we believe natural to be safer, it’s often assumed that pesticide ingredients that occur naturally are somehow better for us than those that humans have created. However, as more research is done into their toxicity, it’s been found this isn’t necessarily true. Natural doesn’t mean non-toxic or safe. Many natural pesticides have been found to have potential or serious health risks.
yeah well im lying about the whole thing. so cool.
Organic, Def: of or relating to an organism, a living entity.
Which fruit and vegetable items is Coles selling that does not fit this?