“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “There’s One Born Every Minute”

27 Replies to ““Organic” Is The Latin Word For “There’s One Born Every Minute””

1. Repeat after me class: there is no such thing as overcharging. There is no such thing as price-gouging. There is an agreed-upon price. Pay it or don’t.

2. Couldn’t happen to a more knowledgeable and deserving group of people!

3. Yeah but if they’re fudging the weight how’s a consumer to know?

4. The link wants me to subscribe to the Globe and Mail, the News source for all of Upper Toronto. I’d rather remain in the dark,thanks, secure in my ignorance,than donate one f***ing cent to that liberal-left progressive ant hill.
   If the article has any mention of gun control or a total ban on hunting, someone please let me know.

5. True, there’s no free market defence of false weights.
   That would be fraud.
   However, hasn’t the CEO been “guilty” of some politically incorrect statements in recent times.
   Has undue weight been given to these views.
   I would take the city’s findings with a pinch of sea salt.

6. “I would take the city’s findings with a pinch of sea salt.”
   That would be organic Sicilian sea salt at $54.99 a kilo of course.

7. Yup.
   This is generally the “We’re all gonna die of climate change” crowd too.
   The willingness to accept wild exaggerations, and a fellow traveller, without question is mindnumbing

8. ” Dalipsingh, 43, also alleges in her claim that Cericola has been falsely labelling chicken products as antibiotic and animal by-product free (“AABF”) for at least five months before she was fired, in order to fill shipments that exceeded the company’s available supply. ”
   http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/cfia-investigating-after-lawsuit-alleges-poultry-falsely-labelled-as-organic-1.2418087
   Fool me once, I’ll go elsewhere to get fooled again.

9. Myself, I prefer inorganic veg.

10. The weights may only seem to be short in the packgages and containers because we all know organic products contain a liberal measure of ‘good intentions’.

11. Organic is ‘worth its weight in gold’, dontcha know
    therefore Whole Foods is measuring in troy pounds

12. The overcharge is their tithe to Gaia for giving them that sweet sweet feeling of self-righteousness that can only come from the smugness they get by putting only organic products into their holy temple, which they have thoughtfully adorned with tasteful tattoos and multiple piercings.

13. Never mind the “organic”, Whole Foods is and always was an elite fad store catering to folks who would travel an extra 20 minutes in their SUV with the A/C on full in order to buy a pound of coffee from Juan Valdez’s poor but freedom-loving Guatemalan cousin who grew the beans on the side of a mountain that was clear-cut in order to grow coffee (or poppies). The fact that they are willing to pay far more than the stuff is worth means nothing to their followers. Mind you, catching free range shrimp individually can be expensive, using all that green fuel oil for the boats manned by cheap Filipino crew trying to feed their family.

14. Some are gullible enough to think that Organic is more healthy it isnt

15. And the problem is???? Separating LIV’s from their money? No. Sucking in the gullible? No. Playing on commie’s in-drag feelings? Nope. Only 2 problems I see is that these idiots believe in anything their handlers tell them, and they vote. So where do I apply for a franchise?

16. Given that they were putting incorrect weights on products, there is most certainly something called overcharging.
    As a mine operator I would go to jail without passing go if I ever engaged in systematic scale tampering.

17. I’ve been fooling my wife for years about how much eight inches is.

18. They are changing the name to hole foods as in shove it up your

19. Shouldn’t be a problem for Whole Foods. All they need to do is make historical adjustments to the weight measurements and voila, they actually undercharged. That is how real science is done.

20. BUT BUT BUT FAIR TRADE AND LIVING WAGES N STUFF!!

21. https://www.facebook.com/DavidAvocadoWolfe/videos/10152737126541512/

22. Kate’s sub-heading, “Marketing to the gullible: if they believe in “organic”, they’ll believe anything.” sums it up.

23. @ 10:03
    I’ll see your wide held belief and raise you one reality. Activists will always get the numbers they want.
    http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/06/the_biggest_myth_about_organic_farming.html

24. 7-11 made a lot of money by selling overpriced but convenient items. Whole Foods is making a lot of money by selling overpriced items with indulgences. Not real, “get out of Hell free” indulgences, but lesser “you can still be rich and it’s mostly ok” indulgences.
    Is there really anything wrong with making money off of the insecurities of the affluent? It’s not like any of them will starve, and if paying an extra $2 for their grown-in-pigshit-blueberries makes them feel better, and no one is hurt by the transaction, what’s the problem? To me it’s funny as can be. Thanks for bringing these glittering jewels of colossal ignorance to our attention. However bad things may look here in Calgary because of the protest vote, at least others are doing unto themselves much harder than the Progressives will be doing unto us.

25. it seems ignorance is indeed bliss.

26. Weight is just a social construct, like gender and race. If something is only 1 kg but feels it has 2 kg trapped inside it, who are we to argue?

27. Yes, @CaligulaJones, they paid the marked price. Offer and acceptance. However, the buyers may have made their buying decisions on price per pound and, in that case, they were overcharged since the weight was misrepresented. However, people don’t generally buy prepared foods by the pound. Does anyone weight their plate at a restaurant to make sure they didn’t get charged a higher price per pound than the next table?