Defining+Organic,+Going+Beyond+Organic

Ashley Nabeshima "There are a whole lot more variables in making the right decision than does the chicken feed have chemicals or not. Like what sort of habitat is going to allow the chicken to express its physiological distinctiveness? A ten-thousand-bird shed that stinks to high heaven or a new paddock of fresh green grass every day? Now which chicken shall we call 'organic'? I'm afraid you'll have to ask the government because they own the word." (Omnivore's Dilemma)

"But the practices we call "organic" are not themselves "natural," any more than the bird call of a hunter is natural. They are more like man-made analogues of natural processes" (Second Nature by Michael Pollan, 195).

"'No, I don't think you understand. I don't believe it's sustainable-- or 'organic,' if you will-- to FedEx meat all around the country. I'm sorry, but I can't do it'" (217).

Liloa Travis

Well in today's time people don't know what organic really means. Everyone has their own opinion for "What organic means?", but there is a lot of people that have really good supporting reasoning's for this question and what it could mean. Its not all exactly correct though. People now days think that produce can be organic even though the if its being shipped around the world, just because what chemicals they put in the produce. If any organic produce have any chemicals in it, it can't be organic. In the book Omnivore's Dilemma written by Michael Pollan, he interviews a grass farmer named Joel Salatin. He says that he would never shipped his produce around the country in a FedEx truck. Even though people can't get organic foods all the time unless you have your own farm or live near a farm. So should people know days always buy organic foods which cost more than proceesed foods and be healthier for you or buy processed foods being shipped around the country with chemicals inside of it that could be harmful to humans and also that processed food is more cheaper and more convenient to us?