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There's a shred of truth in this. It's not economical to grow your own food. The economies of scale in industrial farming will beat you every time.

If your time is worthless, or if you have a lot of fun gardening, then have at it. But the whole media "money is short, lets grow our own food" trend is not reasonable.

^rychan I think the point of the garden is to promote locally grown food not simply organic alone. You CAN buy locally grown foods and still be economical (often times moreso than going to the grocery store)

Besides, you get to meet hot ass granola girls at farmer's markets. Start spouting off about greenhouse gasses and icebergs and you're in like Flint.

Was that moron she was interviewing actually that stupid or was he planted there for comedy's sake? If he was a real person, how the hell did he get that job and also... would someone please fire him? I'm surprised he learned how put that suit on.

gotta love the fake news of the daily show to actually put things in proper perspective.the rep for the health and science(funded by a myriad of petro-chemical companies)forgot to add "painful boils" to his list of fear propaganda.

while modern science and bio-engineering have done wonders in the field of agriculture,it has not been without its costs.but to even suggest that organic is somehow bad for you is flat out wrong."co-opts" are becoming more and more prevalent and thats a good thing.growing your own produce is far cheaper than any grocery store could provide.
if you found this an interesting topic,there is a video on the sift that is a fantastic documentary:
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Future-Of-Food

Appeal to nature

Nature is just a bunch of chemicals. Everything is chemicals.

Organic on principle is not the way to go. You choose the best physical product, and organic methods are limiting your options of how to produce said product based on the afforementioned appeal to nature, rather than what is actually shown to be harmful through physical evidence.

Exactly Lieu. It's like the myth of the noble savage. Show me that these efficient farming methods are bad, don't just appeal to nature.

As far as buying locally -- if it's cheaper, sure. If it's not, then why are you paying for a less efficient food distribution method with a larger greenhouse impact? So what if your food comes from across the country if the shipping is super efficient instead of some inefficient local distribution chain. It's more complicated than "local is better": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_miles

"growing your own produce is far cheaper than any grocery store could provide."

If someone's time is worth $30 per hour and they spend an hour for every $5 bunch of carrots they grow, their home garden becomes very expensive. Time is money (within certain constraints).

Canadians! http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/#clip170781

Yes, time is money (to a degree), but gardening is also outdoor activity. So, every hour spent gardening also means more natural Vitamin D, more exercise and broader immune system exposure. There are psychological benefits as well. Making all of these habitual (even if only seasonally) offers great long term health benefits, which is worth a hell of a lot of money. It's foolish to think that fresh food is the only economic benefit to growing some of your own food.

Again, though, moderation is crucial. If you expend all sorts of energy and cortisol worrying about pesticides and how to afford a more "organic" diet, then you aren't doing yourself a lick of good. Relax, and don't put all your eggs in one basket: grow some food yourself, try to support local farmers often (for cost, health and the local economic boost), but do NOT fret about buying mass-produced food too. Both are very important to having a healthy, secure and efficient food industry in our modern society. We would be unwise to concentrate production too much (as is the current trend), but producing everything local and organic is only efficient and environmentally sound in a few areas of the world.

People should criticize Obama for the bigger stuff, not this. There will be a lot to criticize before his term ends.

Sure, organic farming may have a reputation of being for the elite only. But, from my perspective, my unemployed mother was growing and canning mostly organic vegetables in our rural home in Arkansas long before any of this hype. Why? Because our family of four lived off 20,000, we couldn't afford fresh veggies from the store, and pesticides weren't exactly cheap either. Over the last decade, I've LOVED watching this trend of popularizing and commercializing home/locally-grown food. We thought of it first, BOO-YA!

Jaace, his mom helps him into that suit every morning.