Blog #6

What is organic and where did it come from? Organic wasn’t a very common thing about a century ago. The idea of organic started to get more popular within the last thirty years. It has gone from being a little “movement” to a rather larger business which is now known and used almost everywhere in the world. Organic is a way to produce food more naturally and “healthier”. When people see or hear organic they immediately think that what they are about to purchase is better for their body ot better than anything non-organic or conventional. Having an organic label on a product gives the customers a little story about the product they are about to purchase. An example of an organic product is milk or chicken. Pollan described two different milks that were available at a supermarket and the one that was more organic “had said no to ultrapasteurization”; turns out when the milk was actually researched back to the farm where it came from things were not as they seemed, some of the organic milk actually come from factory farms, which is not organic at all. Also when Pollan took a visit to Petaluma to see a chicken that was being advertised as organic he discovered that there were many of these chickens, not just one special one, and they were not free-ranged as they were said to be. This goes to show that organic isn’t always what it says it is. How else can you describe organic as being rhetorical? There are farms that produce nothing but the most natural organic foods but, on the other hand we have organic farms that advertise they produce nothing but the most natural organic foods, but when looked closely they may have organic ingredients but they are almost similar to the conventional food farms.