The World Has Officially Gone Insane
Organics at the Wal-Mart price.
Hands up all of you who think this sounds like a good thing.
Hands up all of you who think this sounds like a good thing.
posted by Bobo the Wandering Pallbearer at 12:35 PM
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Per the USDA, "organic" is almost entirely meaningless, it turns out. Wal-Mart sells organic milk, for instance, from Horizon dairy, which uses the same industrial feedlot practices as conventional milk producers, but feeds the cows organic silage while they stand atop enormous piles of feces.
The more of Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma I read, the more I think that the only ways anyone can really eat sustainably are to go and watch the production of everything one eats, or to grow everything one eats - and one probably can't do either. Hence, one supposes, "dilemma."
Agreed, most people in most places cannot grow everything they eat. Agreed, Horizon milk is about as organic as Bugs Bunny. But the tagline of the commercial just got me. I mean, they just trotted it out there, like the expected anybody would believe it. And then the real irony struck me: alot of people are going to believe it. "It's OK for me to buy my groceries at Wal-Mart, since the stuff they are selling is organic."
IT'S PEEEEEEPULLLLE!!! HORIZON MILK IS PEEEEEEPULLLLE!!!
Walmart is the root of all evil things.
I hate Walmart.
I don't have television, so I haven't seen the ad in question. Although I can agree that Wal-Mart is evil. (However, recently my town passed an ordinance banning 225,000-square-foot big-box retail from also selling groceries, in a move to attempt to keep Wal-Mart within the confines of the store they already have here. Wal-Mart sued in state and federal court, and lost in both. Whee!
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