22 Replies to ““Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit””

    2. I actually know Kent personally, he’s a pretty amazing guy with grit and tenacity to have accomplished all that he has with the cards he was dealt.

      He was an excellent hockey player back in High School & college, partied hard, and a good friend to many. After receiving a random bullet to the neck sitting at a traffic light he was paralyzed for life. Within a few years despite being a quadriplegic he attained a couple University degrees becoming a lawyer and then on into politics.

      I certainly don’t agree with Liberal politics, but Kent has a different life experience and perspective toward his personal reasons to count as one.

      1. Kent wanted to force all restaurants to add the carbon footprint to all menu items just as any lunatic would.

        1. “Kent wanted to force all restaurants to add the carbon footprint to all menu items……”

          That’s what Liberals do. So did it pass? Did he win a re-election in Calgary?

          Answer = no & no

  5. Kate, I love your site and have followed for years. But seriously, the “organic grown in pig shit” is not funny or accurate. There are two ways to ensure no bacteria on food 1- proper food prep (always the best choice, meaning ensure all your ingredients is CLEAN before you use it)
    2-dose the product in so much chemical shit that nothing can survive on it then you don’t have to worry about washing it properly, problem solved

    I think I’ll take option #1

    2. You forgot the 3 rd essential ingredient, CLEAN STAFF, preparing/serving the food!
      Does no good to have the best, cleanest ingredients available, if the person preparing or serving it has just “cleaned up” after using the washroom, by pouring water down their backs from a fetid jug and scrubbing with their left hand… Soap? Pah! We don’t need no stinking soap!

    4. Once contaminated with coli, food is pretty much impossible to “clean “. Contaminated Vegetables organic or not are almost always contaminated during harvesting by workers who don’t have proper hygiene facilities.

    5. It is my very careful, nay religious habit to keep raw meat completely separated from all my other food prep surfaces … dedicated meat cutting boards sanitized between uses and never allow cross contamination. Meat borne infections are easily solved (well … although I refuse to overcook my meat to a burnt crisp).

      But vegetable borne bacteria is a whole nother ball game. Do you really believe that rinsing each piece of lettuce in cold water will make a contaminated bunch of Romaine lettuce “safe”? Organo-Puhleeze!? Do you suggest I take a scrub brush to each strawberry I eat? Should I wash my salad fixings in scalding HOT water?

      It’s absurd to place all the responsibly of a SAFE food supply on the end user … and none on the producer. And if you honestly believe you’re gonna die of pesticide and “chemical” fertilizers … then I suggest you grow your own food.

      1. When vacationing in Mexico, we’d often prepare our own means from locally sourced ingredients. The most difficulties arise in sourcing clean water, but as technologies continue to reach the masses, it is improving. Iodine drops are cheap and commonplace, a sink full of clean water, a few drops of iodine and soak your veggies in that, for a few hours. Otherwise, don’t eat anything that can’t be peeled or cooked
        or covered in lime juice!

      2. I do grow most of my own food (100% grass fed beef, pasture raised heritage pork and chickens) and yes I do it organically.. and my customers appreciate that fact. Chemical contamination from pesticides, herbicides and fungicides is real and a problem. If you choose to ignore that then no issue, doesn’t affect me at all. You make a choice, just make sure you’re fully informed about the reality, from both sides of the discussion.

    7. Did you know, Patrick, that E.Coli is a bacteria that comes from the gut and is present in food because the food has been contaminated with shit?

      “2-dose the product in so much chemical” …stop right there.

      Did you know that exposure to radiation sterilization can kill all of the bacteria/virus present without radiation persisting in the food?
      For political reasons, people who insist on “organic” food reject irradiating it.

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