How do consumers feel about organic foods? (everyone please look!)?

Question

I am doing a project on organic vs. traditional farming. My part in the project is to find out the consumers veiwpoint about organic foods. So if anyone would tell me how they feel about organic foods please answer this question. Thanks!

Answer 1

I wish I could afford to buy everything organically, but I can't afford it. I do try to raise some of my own veggies & such. Plus I raise ducks & Chickens to have my own organic eggs & meat. I also sell them on www.Ovabid.com

Organic Milk tastes the BEST!

Answer 2

These days it's impossible to trust that anything labeled organic really is organic.  Your best bet is to grow it yourself so that you can control the additives.

Answer 3

I will buy locally produced food first, certified organic second and I tend to avoid other foods as I do not like eating unmarked GMO's nor the additives allowed into non certified organic processed foods (not that I eat a lot of processed foods as whole fresh foods are so much better for you.)

I feel that an organic apple that has traveled around the world in no more "green" or nutritious than a conventionally grown apple grown locally.

i feel well grown organic foods (from a farm that has been under organic management for over 10 years) are indeed much better. there is a growing body of peer reviewed scientific evidence that organically grown foods are much much more nutrient dense than their conventionally grown counterparts and i know my body feels better when it is fed high quality organic food.

that said there has been a rush by large industrial farms to get organic certification and now the majority of the certified organic food on grocery shelves is from farms that are organic in name only. the soils are not truly healthy, lively organic soils and the farmers too often are in organics for the money and do not understand the processes of organic agriculture, preferring instead to substitute organic inputs for chemical inputs and that is not real organic growing nor will this produce superior food.

Answer 4

Organic my elbow, it's got to be one of the biggest cons of all time. Give me good quality frozen vedge any day.

Answer 5

Personally I don't see much diffrence, I don;'t make a big deal about what I eat as long as it falls into three catergories.

1: Is value for money.

2.It represents part of a balanced diet.

3.Tastes nice.

I hope that this will help you, good luck.

Answer 6

I will not eat organic foods.  Reasons being:

1.  The rules applied to US and internationally certified organic produce are contradictory in several cases

2.  Organic does not necessarily mean sustainable, and I would rather buy foods that are sustainably produced (which we generally have no way of knowing whether organic or not)

3.  I would rather eat well grown, pest free and disease free produce

4.  The premium that they command is generally because the farmer needs a increased payment due to drop in production.  Again a sustainability issue on a world scale.

5.  Anything can be labelled organic (but not certified)

6.  Organics does guarantee animal welfare (all those who think that organic chooks are better treated need to know that they are not).

Answer 7

You pose an interesting question... one that marketers are head over heals about to find added value at the retail end of the market.  The grocers create a special section for organics in several of the stores in our town.  In all honesty I have never even looked through this section.  Organic foods are ok but the cost of production due to organic requirements is too high.  I would rather purchase foods that are labeled "produced locally" over organic.  Too many of the organic foods are beginning to come from large corporate structured ventures and once again, due to working in the large volumes, the average farmer will barely make a living.  I think you would find a different set of answers if you pose this same questions in the foods section and even another type of answers if you put it under the vegetarian section.

Answer 8

Organic foods are good for the people who feel the need to buy them. They are good business for people growing them.  The are a growing niche market, but will never take the place of traditional farming. I personally would eat and even buy organic food at times but don't feel that I have to have it, and am not willing to pay a higher price to get it. Over all I guess you would say I might be sort of neutral about organic food, but definitely not against it.

Answer 9

Free range organic chicken, organic milk and organic veggies I'd buy if they weren't prohibitively expensive and consider it money well spent.  Particularly chicken.

But my thought is the products are over-priced.

Answer 10

There is a book called "The way we eat" comparing 3 families and their buying/eating habits. I have not read it, but it might be interesting for you.

When organic was really organic, I tried to buy. Today the standards are so watered down, that even China produces and even Walmart sells "Organic". I do not trust anything just because it says organic.

However I do prefer things that are non GMO, locally grown  and from a reliable source.

You really know what you have been missing, when you try   homegrown tomatoes.