B'ings: Organic Food

            Hey, all, welcome to another of my B’ings! What’s a B’ing you ask? Add a few letters in between, use your imagination, realize I’m being polite. Got it now? If you don’t have it, I pity you.

            Anyway, today I’m going to B’ing about organic foods, but you read the title so hopefully you already know it’s the topic. If you didn’t, I pity you.

            Okay, so you always hear about organic foods. You see the ads, you go to the store, you see the foods. And they cost more. So you’re adding the word “organic” as a reason to make you think you’re getting something better to justify slapping a higher price tag to food? BUT, here’s where, for me, it gets worse. They say “organic chicken.” Whoa, whoa, whoa! Are you saying the other brands of chicken aren’t organic? Now, let’s explore that. We have chickens clucking and walking around farms. Let’s look at science. Chickens are living creatures, or organisms. Organisms are living things. These dead chicken that you’re buying at stores were, at one point, living organisms. Doesn’t that automatically, by definition, by science, by whatever, make it mean chickens were organic before you bought your dead bodies? I mean, yeah we have chicken that aren’t chicken that are made of plants, but if you want the meat, don’t you want an ORGANIC chicken? Do you want INORGANIC chicken? If I want to buy chicken for consumption, I want ORGANIC chicken? Otherwise… IT’S NOT CHICKEN! I mean, here’s where they rook you. I get “organic” chicken are raised on a “special diet,” but how does that make it “organic chicken?” All meat chicken were at one point organic. So you’re slapping the word “organic” to something that was ALREADY organic so you can sell it to people who want it to be “special?” Chicken is chicken! A living ORGANISM! I DO NOT find that justifiable! And how can they PROVE it was fed the special diet? They can SAY it, anyone can SAY it. If I wanted “organic chicken” at a special price, I’m not going to a farm to WATCH them feed the chickens the special diet and then sticking their dead bodies in the meat section of the store. I’m not THERE! And neither are you! So I just have to take it on an honor system… and the human race are not a very honorable species, especially stores who want to charge extra on “organic chicken” that was, by definition, ALREADY ORGANIC! Okay, I get it, I’m being redundant, but this is just to prove my point to you further.

            And we have other foods that follow this, like beef, from grass fed cows. You let a cow into a field, it’s going to eat grass. THAT’S WHAT COWS DO! So a cow eats grass and nothing else, why is it specifically “organic?”

            Oh, and my favorite example: organic vegetables. NO ONE WANTS TO EAT INORGANIC VEGETABLES! HOW is a vegetable SPECIFICALLY organic? You want to give me inorganic veggies, ew… just, ew?

            So what is food not labeled as organic? The only other option is synthetic. AND STORES DON’T SELL SYNTHETIC FOODS! NO ONE WANTS TO EAT SYNTHETIC FOODS! I mean, what is wrong with this?

            Alright, I feel I’ve established my opinion on “organic foods” quite clearly. You get it, I know. I’ve just proved my point. And I hope I gave you something to think about. You might not AGREE with what I’ve said, but it’s my opinion and I hope you’ve taken this in and UNDERSTAND what I’ve said. And I used a LOT of capitals! I was a journalism student. You know what they call that in journalism? “Flaming.” Just a little fact. So I apparently flame. A lot. And don’t try to make that unsavory, by the way. I know you want to. But it’s not. Unsavory. So keep coming to my blog. I’ve got more reviews, editorials, short stories, poetry, and of course B’ings lined up, so there’s plenty more to read. So I leave you with… Tim Cubbin, out!