Organic Feed-What is the difference?

[Arctichicken]

OOPPSS!!! Sorry I'm emptying it right now!!! I was wondering why I heard back from you...duh???

 

[Nupine]

NS2A
If I am not mistaken, people in the biblical times lived in the hundreds, even thousands, according to the bible. But we won't get into that

Good information peoples!!

 

[Arctichicken]

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I too was thinking the EXACT same thing when I read that!!!

 

[Dennis1979]

Organic food is currently an $11 billion industry and growing. The Organic industry is now dominated by the big agribusiness conglomerates in this country. "Organic", as it was originally envisioned back in the 70's, was established as an alternative to all the mass produced and highly processed foods that people of the organic movement believed to be unhealthy to people, to the environment and to the small farming communities that were being systematically destroyed.

Eventually as the big agribusiness interests began to see dollar signs, they got in bed with their old friend the USDA to rewrite what organic means and to tailor it to their system of mass producing things and shipping it all over the world. They also figured out ways to make a lot of highly processed foods organic, like TV dinners. If history be any judge, as time goes by, these interests will further refine the definition to fit their enormous business model and to squeeze out the small farm and family businesses.

The point is, in my opinion, the term "Organic" is almost meaningless in the commercial sense. I certainly wouldn't strive to meet it. If you want to produce a very healthy egg for your family, then research and decide what you want to feed your chickens in order to get great tasting eggs, be it organic feed or natural feed. If you have a board or two of treated wood in the coop, so what. If you are getting awesome eggs who cares?

If you are selling your eggs and want to conform to the USDA definition of Organic so you can put that on the carton, then knock yourself out, but my guess is that by the time your done you will have to charge $15 a dozen for your eggs just to break even.

Dennis

 

[lisamcconnell]

I didn't see it mentioned, but another reason to feed organic is because of GMO's especially in corn and soy. You could do a search to find out more about it.
lisa

 

[NS2A]

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Well, the way they counted things was a bit different back then. Jesus was in the tomb "3 days". Well, Friday afternoon to Sunday before dawn is less than 48 hours. But, they counted from sunsets to sunrises and such. If you want to believe Moses lived a literal 800 years to prove your point organic food is better, fine. But a normal Jew or Greek man lived under 40 years.

And I will add, I am a Christian.

 

[Arctichicken]

That was after the flood. Do you believe God's creation of everything in 7 days? I do.

 

[NS2A]

Yes.

Still, the people during the New Testament times were eating organic food. And they lived under 40 years.

 

[Arctichicken]

That is true and Im not enough of an expert to say why. But I absolutely do not believe people today live longer because of all the processed and nutritionally retarded food they are eating.

 

[NS2A]

And I agree. What I was trying to say is just because you eat orgainc, does not *necessarily* mean you will be more healthy or live longer.

And again, you will get more benefit the more "closely" the food is to the organic source. Say eating a tomato in which you eat the entire fruit, thus eliminating the presence of pesticides sprayed on the part you eat.

That vs organic meat, which livestock will process out some of the pesticides they eat.