The organic food thing

If this is your biggest complaint about your spouse, you're doing pretty well...

Is there any logic behind the way she feels on the subject? Did she have a loved one who died of cancer?

 

Yep. Sibling.

 

My reasons for buying organic when I do are based in reducing the pesticides and crap we are putting into the dirt and our bodies, not because I think they are inherently more nutritional.

I buy organic, cage-free eggs because I like to think they came from chickens that weren't subjected to the conditions of factory egg production.

 

Well, fuck... That would do it...

Yeah, based on that, I would happily buy organic everything for her and not say another word about it...

 

Also, this.

 

Oh, yeah. For sure. At this point, I'm just curious myself about whether it is indeed worthwhile, or merely a placebo thing. Almost more journalistically than anything to do with the wallet.

 

I'm surprised she drinks milk at all, given her level of vigilance.

Future studies may show people who have organic diets lead healthier lives, but I'd argue that they, like your wife, were predisposed to leading a healthier life and buy the marketing of organic products as aiding in that process.

 

We try to eat organic and locally-farmed as much as possible. We're not sticklers about it, except when it comes to the milk our 4-year-old drinks. She has gotten nothing but organic milk since she was weaned.

 

One of the grocery store chains in our city announced that they would only be selling eggs from free range chickens.

We are in the same boat in that I do not think there is higher nutritional value but I do wonder about hormones, anti-biotics and pesticides. If we can keep it out of the kid's systems all the better.