Blog #6

The word organic is taken into assumption by others to mean “from the earth”. That the food comes directly from nature and the planet and it is what connects our culture and lifestyle to our environment. It is the belief that organic products are not tainted by the chemicals industrialized through agriculture. Organic food is supposed to be fresh and has a back-story onto how it was created. A way that we can feel a connection with the nature it comes from being that of chickens who are raised with freedom and what Pollan referred to as “free range”. The “organic community” I refer to is a set of people with the same belief behind the food products they buy. This community all has the shared concern about their food products and the damage that is done to the animals behind it. They pride on their pathos towards the environment that they buy this organic situated food. The “organic community” is completely oblivious to the production of their so called earthbound food. They all fall prey to the stories produced on the labels that tell one side but keep the total production out of the equation. How can this be called “organic”? The food is produced the same as any other farm where animals are kept in tightly strict pastures where their main purpose is to produce these foods and then be killed when their time is due. The labels on whole food only tell you the cows on this farm are fed with only the most organic of grasses and they are treated with utmost respect when really they are placed in the same conditions as cows in any farm to be squeezed for milk until death. The word “organic” is just the hype of what we expect healthy and earthbound to be. The reality of it is simply the fact that we fall prey to the pathos of the story and ethos behind the companies to believe we are closer to the earth and natural creatures.