Organic Weetabix (and other organic foodstuffs)

[mux]

Currently eating a bowl of this. It tastes the same if not slightly poorer quality than normal Weetabix.

Does anyone actually buy the organic alternatives to stuff? If so why?

Also please someone educate me on why this is even a thing. I mean, surely Weetabix are organic by their very nature?!

 

[dangermows]

I get Metrebix if I'm hungry, and Litrebix if I fancy it with loads of milk.

 

[monkeytassle]

Currently eating a bowl of this. It tastes the same if not slightly poorer quality than normal Weetabix.

Does anyone actually buy the organic alternatives to stuff? If so why?

Also please someone educate me on why this is even a thing. I mean, surely Weetabix are organic by their very nature?!

Dr Banner will break you

 

[Lexingtongue]

It always sounds like the living alternative of something and freaks me out a bit. Isn't it for vegans and their ilk?

 

[James]

Organic shops are normally great for meat substitute products. That's about it really.

 

[Nipple Salad]

Personally I prefer Yogurt, Blueberry and Bee Pollen Muesli

Washed down with a Chia and Acai Smoothie

 

[Hair Flick]

Countryfile at the weekend reckon that organic farming really dived after the 2008 crash.

I'd like to think I'm not stuffing my face with a shit load of pesticides and steroids but there's a pinch point in my pocket where I just shrug my shoulders and think "meh! We all have to die of something"

 

[becs]

Currently eating a bowl of this. It tastes the same if not slightly poorer quality than normal Weetabix.

Does anyone actually buy the organic alternatives to stuff? If so why?

Also please someone educate me on why this is even a thing. I mean, surely Weetabix are organic by their very nature?!

How pretentious! That's put me right off my quinoa and chia seeds with macadamia ricotta.

 

[Hair Flick]

Personally I prefer Yogurt, Blueberry and Bee Pollen Muesli

Washed down with a Chia and Acai Smoothie

I had fresh squeezed watermelon juice this morning. Toppa stuff. Hits the spot to set you up early doors.

 

[Epping]

tend not to bother too much with organic. rather buy local and in season.

Buy organic milk and eggs sometimes.

read an article a while ago and if you are going to go organic on a budget then to focus on meat like Chicken which are often pumped of drugs

Lamb while not flagged as organic is as good as if reared on the hills.

with veg its says go organic for fruit and veg that is above ground and worry less for things like spuds an root veg

 

[Arkle]

Organic food isn't particularly healthier for the consumer and doesn't generally taste any different but it's kinder to the environment. If you're buying meat or other animal products and care about the animals' welfare then free range is obviously the way to go. Both obviously come at a price...

 

[DaveH]

Countryfile at the weekend reckon that organic farming really dived after the 2008 crash.

I'd like to think I'm not stuffing my face with a shit load of pesticides and steroids but there's a pinch point in my pocket where I just shrug my shoulders and think "meh! We all have to die of something"

Or another way to look at it is, organic farming produces lower crop yields but the human population is growing. The more organic stuff we eat, the more land we need for farming. The more land we need for farming, the more trees and hedgerows we need to cut down. As they reduce, biodiversity reduces and carbon dioxide levels go up, which warms the planet, sea levels rise and available land is reduced further.

If anything, providing it is safe for human consumption, we need to be producing as higher yield crops as we can by any method we can use. The only other two options are, hit a world wide crisis very quickly or find someway of dealing with the worldwide population increase. It is frightening to think that at the end of WW1 the global population was 2 billion. It is now 7 billion.

 

[Hair Flick]

Organic food isn't particularly healthier for the consumer and doesn't generally taste any different but it's kinder to the environment. If you're buying meat or other animal products and care about the animals' welfare then free range is obviously the way to go. Both obviously come at a price...

Trying to catch free range carrots is a nightmare like. I stick to the battery ones.

 

[Arkle]

Trying to catch free range carrots is a nightmare like. I stick to the battery ones.

Well, aye, the veg are tricky beasts when they get underground...

 

[Deleted member 14766]

I would like to appear intelligent and knowledgeable enough to respond to the OPs question about how wheat can possibly not be organic so I'm just going to drop the phrase 'genetically modified' into a post and see what it scares up.

 

[Epping]

Or another way to look at it is, organic farming produces lower crop yields but the human population is growing. The more organic stuff we eat, the more land we need for farming. The more land we need for farming, the more trees and hedgerows we need to cut down. As they reduce, biodiversity reduces and carbon dioxide levels go up, which warms the planet, sea levels rise and available land is reduced further.

If anything, providing it is safe for human consumption, we need to be producing as higher yield crops as we can by any method we can use. The only other two options are, hit a world wide crisis very quickly or find someway of dealing with the worldwide population increase. It is frightening to think that at the end of WW1 the global population was 2 billion. It is now 7 billion.

we eat too much. certainly with regard to meat.

far too many of us want quantity over quality

 

[Arkle]

we eat too much. certainly with regard to meat.

far too many of us want quantity over quality

Yep, and pastoral farming takes up far more land per unit of food than arable farming.

 

[Typhoonftm]

Also please someone educate me on why this is even a thing. I mean, surely Weetabix are organic by their very nature?!

I very much doubt mass produced wheat is even slightly organic.

 

[Nookie Bear]

I had fresh squeezed watermelon juice this morning. Toppa stuff. Hits the spot to set you up early doors.

Got a biggun to juice later , going to freeze some slices though too

 

[Roger]

tend not to bother too much with organic. rather buy local and in season.

Very much this for me, local and in-season both for the flavour and the environment.

We did get local organic veg. boxes for a while, but the farmer that delivered them seemed to get bored of delivering them! The national firms doing organic deliveries charge extortionate prices.