"Organic food" - is the concept past its sell by date?

koeman

Organic is just a code word for small and dirty food.  I don't buy into it, but dont actively avoid it.

Synchro

On what grounds?

rousetafarian

Impossible to tell, as it was another Moderator

Synchro

Very odd.  Nothing made me think they were anything that needed moderating.  Who moderated them?

rousetafarian

A number of posts from you and others have been removed, that's all. They were deemed to be inappropriate I'd assume. We moderate 1000's of posts/day between us and many are removed across all threads for various reasons.

SteakAndCake

Big Agriculture as infiltrated AVF Towers and the mods have all been bought off /TinFoilHat

balidey

Someone I know used to run a corner shop many years ago. When he took it on he was told when his fresh produce was delivered to put it into 3 sections. Tomatoes etc were divided and priced up as 'premium'; 'normal' and 'basics'. These were the SAME tomatoes just with a different price and sign above them. For months he used to see that the high price and low price would sell really well, the 'normal' ones hardly moved.
He never actually labelled anything as 'organic', but it does go to show that most people will buy according to price or how something is perceived, even if they look identical.

And I am aware that many people have heard about this sort of thing going on. I am not saying my mate invented this principle, but I bet there is a lot of this happening in all types of trade.

SteakAndCake

There's a whole science behind this perception of value and supermarkets exploit it to it's maximum potential.

rousetafarian

You are more than welcome to comment, but don't take the mick

SteakAndCake

Noted but let me ask you, you really think that joke was libellous?  really?  Way to make a joke comment seem like it actually has substance lmao