So I usually eat organic peanut butter. The first time I ask my mom to by regular Jiff peanut butter, something goes wrong. I took a spoonful to eat (I do that....) and started eating it when I felt something unusually hard in my mouth. I spit it out and saw a thick square-ish piece of white plastic. What the fuck. :$
Peanut butter is really bizarre, these days. Most of the time I just get the organic kind you have to mix. It's generally lower-priced and more consistant.. organic really should be cheaper, anyway.
organic is more expensive cause it takes a lot more effort to make sure it stays organic. at least thats how it was explained to me. and organic pb is the only kind that tastes like peanuts. fuck the rest of the crappy pb
I remember making peanut butter at school (in Health class, for some odd reason). It was pretty good, too. It was just this little plastic thing that kind of looked like a juicer--except peanut butter came out instead of juice. I want to make peanut butter with honey roasted peanuts.
Pretty much. It's a supply vs demand kind of thing. The price of organics have been coming down over the year as the demand rises and the O-farmers are able to cover their costs better.
I did that in health class too! I reember it being really yummy too. But they forced us to eat it with celery. And there was a wheel where we would spin it and eat whatever vegetable we landed on. I had to eat a raw potato in a barrel of water. Euuugh.
Common sense, or at least my perception of it, would tell me that it takes more time and money to grow them due to the crops not being as immune or not being resistant monstrosities, just like not injecting cows with bovine or antibiotics would make them less resistant...I reckon = more time and money. Yet, a supply of bovine for a farm costs an arm and a leg--a pinch can be used on a shitload of animals. It's just that I lived on a farm and we did organic produce and sold some free range chickens, etc. It really wasn't any different at a family farm size, but we weren't supporting ourselves solely on that. It was mostly a case of not wasting good open, 700 year old farm fields. College of William and Mary said they'd been cleared by the Powhatans/Algonquinn before colonists ever arrived and it was part of Werowicomoco... oddly some of the richest soil that they'd tested in arch. digs in this region. They told my grandmother that it'd perk for 70-100 houses easy. Anyway, organic has just as many consistancy issues as non-organic, it seems, with all the disease occurances that have been going on with that peanut processing plant in Georgia, this year, and from experience. That and well, your food isn't being waxed and put under sodium bulbs in the produce section, to look fresh. Honestly, the FDA needs to be split up and they need a boot put in their ass, quick... because I really won't be able to take the war on terrorism seriously until they waste another few billion dollars, testing my food.
