What is with this organic bashing/ignorance?

These companies do marketing research and find that many people like the sweets. Corn syrup and high-fructose corn syrup are cheap, have a long shelf life, are easily stored and manipulated since they are a liquid. It's also good for the farmers since it comes from corn. It's probably cheaper than olive oil, which companies used to use to give a little sweetness to things like spaghetti sauce.

Sugar has an addictive quality to some people. It gives a brief high then a low. Then people want more of it. It's good for getting some people to use more of a product.

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Honey is another buzz word for sugar. The breakfast cereal companies like to use that word since it sounds more nutritious than sugar.

It used to be Super Sugar Crisp. Then they changed it to Super Golden Crisp. They changed Sugar Smacks to Honey Smacks then simply Smacks. Sugar-Frosted Flakes was renamed Frosted Flakes. And so on.

All they do is put a tiny amount of honey in it so that they can legally use the word 'honey'. All the sugar is still in there.

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tomato sauce has to be the easiest thing in the world ever to make. i can't imagine buying premade stuff. my mom's tomato garden is outrageously awesome. but she lives far away, so she cans some for me. otherwise i use this awesome tomato paste i found at whole foods. i'll buy dried and canned goods all day and night. but the fresh stuff, man, i go too long between paydays to spend on it. sucks.

 

we used to live on a farm with this couple that raised chickens for their eggs. MAN! were those ever some good eggs. the chickens were fully free range though, and a complete pain in the ass. kai couldn't play in the back yard unless the chickens were roosting. and there was this one that would just chase her down. vicious little monsters. i never enjoyed eating chicken and their potential young so much in my life.

 

What about the use of toxins as a form of disease control?

Ddt preventing malaria and such?

If a greater risk to humanity comes from not allowing toxins, ought we not all eat non-organic foods?

Weighing health benefits goes far beyond counting calories.

 

I cut out out expensive processed foods as much as possible to help pay for a bit more expensive vegetables and fruit.

Of course, when shopping, fruit and vegetables in general tend to be pretty cheap.

 

really. seems like the same people who blanch at the thought of paying an extra buck a pound for organic produce think nothing of paying $50 a pound for nutritionally void processed food.

 

I don't think the issue is so much switching people to organic vegetables as much as increasing the amount of fruit and vegetables they actually eat.

 

so, how do you make it? tomato sauce?

 

I made some the other day. Blanche some tomatoes, process it, a couple other common ingredients and spices and bam. You're good to go.

 

dietary cholesterol has minimal effect, if any at all. only small cases where it is shown to have an effect with some people. and fat is good for you.

 

gotta break it down for me:

blanche?
other common ingredients?

 

Blanching means putting tomatoes in boiling water for about 30 seconds - then you peel the skin off.

Process the Tomatoes and then simmer them down. Throw in some onion, garlic, peppers, and pretty much cook them soft. Spice to taste. Throw in some olive oil, maybe some wine. It's pretty easy to experiment with.

 

sounds good to me

 

Try it. I made some good stuff with a lot of this "Taste of Tuscany" spice I randomly bought that kicks ass. For homemade Canniloni. It was a pretty kickass meal, actually.

 

i'll def test it out when i'm home for thanksgiving

kinda hard in a dorm room hah

 

You still live in a dorm? Shitty deal.

 

yea, shitty deal

middle of VT, no car...yea, kinda hard to get any type of decent job in a small town

 

don't forget to mess with the herbs a bit, too. some of the things i'm never without are basil, oregano, rosemary, fennel seeds, garlic.