SOYLENT GREEN IS CHEAP!!!!

Any one who’s a friend of mine on Facebook, may have noticed my occasional “workout” updates. While I too am trying to improve my health by at least doing my part in the exercise portion of maintaining a healthy lifestyle the one part in which I fail miserably is the diet. While the biggest reason for this is because I am usually too busy to cook dinner (and because I’m not a fuckin’ rabbit and likes me a good burger every now and then) another reason is because eating right is just freakin’ expensive.

Tonight, I was watching a program on Bloomberg television regarding the debate between organic vs conventional farming methods. Those who know me know I am a bit of a tree hugger (and the only reason I own a truck is because of my damn ex) and do get concerned about environmental issues. Organic farming falls into this range because, for those who don’t know, organic food is grown without the use of pesticides or other man-made fertilizers and therefore does not pollute the water supply via the soil. Despite my interest in science, I am by no means a scientist. Yet, logic dictates that growing food without man made toxins and fertilizers seems like a good and healthy thing. While scientifically, organic food does not possess any more nutrients than conventionally grown food, there is the potential for carcinogens (those things that cause cancer) to fester and grow in our bodies over time (5-10+ years) and make us sick. Yet, I’m not here to talk about the health benefits of organic food. I think that speaks for itself. What I am here to write about is, WHY THE HELL IS IT SO DAMN EXPENSIVE!!!

From watching this program I learned that the major reason for its expense is that it is labor intensive. Instead of using a chemical fertilizer, sometimes farmers have to hand till and remove weeds. While this is all well and good, I can’t begin to understand how this, obviously much healthier long-term, option will ever become available for the common middle-class citizens. The biggest consumers of organic foods, at a quick glance, are college-educated, intellectuals. But they don’t just eat organic food because they’re smarter. They eat it because they can afford it. Well, the rest of us “regularly educated” folks, enjoy eating healthy and not getting cancer-causing agents in our bodies as well. But yet it always seems that anything that is good for you in this world, is expensive. Pretty messed up. The organic farmers and the entire organic industry better figure out some ways to make organic foods more accessible to the everyday man, or it will continue to be looked at as just some elitist brand of staying healthy.

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Just Blaze laced this beat. I had to do it. Brace yourselves!!!!