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The CEO of Whole Foods came out against Obamacare and was ridiculed by the left.
He is a business man, and a successful businessman. If separating organic from non-organic improves his bottom line, I say good for him and Whole Foods stock prices.

It has nothing to do with science, non-organic food isn't kosher.

Sounds like Howard Hughes lite.

I think of organic produce as shit. But only because they use shit for fertilizer, so, am I being fair?

If others want to pay to indulge these things, and it does not impact me (I shop at Kroger) then I have no issue with Whole Foods.

Go forth, meet the demands of your market, and do well by doing 'good'.

Under estimate the GMO's at your own peril.
What sane person would allow the gov't-corpo complex to control their life in any way at all?

So, what exactly does "organic" mean when applied to food?

Does anyone else suspect, as I do, that somewhere down the line someone is making big money off of "fair trade"? And that that someone is not a farmer.

Ghost, everything we eat is GMO. Either the old slow way, selective breeding, or the fast way, using our brains. A non GMO tomato is smaller than a cranberry and poison,How about corn? it was the size of modern day wheat. You better go back to eating bugs, mice and rats like the pre GMO humans ate for 49,000 years.

How did ck become chuck?

Sorry my mistake

There has to be a plot for a new "Portlandia" in this.

"Non-organic food isn't kosher"? Where did that come from? I have some friends in Israel that would be surprised at that.

The concerns about "organic" food seem contradictory. Anyone living in an urban area breathes crummy chemical-laden air. The clothes we wear, the automobiles we drive, any and all consumer goods including the deck I am pecking out this message on generate toxic substances in their manufacture or in their use. Where do you think electricity comes from, the energy fairy?

Any of us who are Luddites living far off the grid and self-sustaining themselves won't be reading these comments. The rest of us are so deeply immersed in um, non-organic lifestyles that a few vegetables won't make any difference. Oh, the water supplies too. Meat eaters, vegans, Jews, Gentiles, no matter what cloth we're cut from we do not live organic lives.

Sometimes it’s better just to eat the soup, and not stir it.

Is there truly someone believing that the forced introduction of genes from one order to another is equivalent to selective breeding? Or grafting?

How embarrassing to the scientific community.

Maybe that is what the two cow "maters" were up to - research?

@ chasmatic - "eat the soup". Ah, got it.

@Darkwater: I think the remark was a metaphor. Kosher preparations keep certain foods separated in an extreme (some might say neurotic) manner, extending even to separate utensils for the separate categories of food, for reasons having nothing to do with hygiene or health. Likewise, those who go to extremes in separating "organic" from inorganic foods, such as in the Whole Foods stores article, seem to imitate Kosher rules.

I'm not part of the "scientific community". The government doesn't give me money, it takes money from me with the threat of lethal force

To hell with Whole Foods. It is snobby, overpriced and organic is a waste of money unless you grow it yourself and totally control the entire process.

Give me Trader Joe's any day, Kroger will do considering we reside in middle of nowhere. WF politics leave much to be desired and they got mad at me for have a ceegar behind my ear inside the store?? Unlit and had it for the drive home. That was several years ago and piss on WF.

The kosher remark was meant to point out that it is religion, not science, like most of the Progressive movement.

Griz: Interesting take on that aphorism, I hadn't thought of it that way. My Czecho grandpa used to say that when we got too fussy with the food. Like, sometimes it is better to eat the stuff rather than look at the label, see what's in it. E.G. hot dogs contain "animal byproducts". Er, I don't wanna know. Some of the soups and stews my grandma made were really good, and I stopped trying to identify the various meat parts.

@ck, the average person would scoff at the tomatoes we eat, they ain't pretty, but they come right out of the ground from an heirloom seed strain more than 100 years old. Flavorful? Unless you tried them, more than you can imagine. The stuff in the stores is heavily modified and not fit for human consumption. But people have been conditioned slowly over a long period of time to endure it. You can see this in the rate of obesity and the health problems. There is a reason every 3rd ad on TV is for a drug. They planned it that way. That old adage is true, "If you want something done right, do it yourself.", and never more so than with food. Lot's of people will say they have no time for growing their own food, but they'll have time for their health problems. Go figure.