How much do you care about the food you eat?

jp_bl_68 said:
Why Dutch pork?
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I enjoy the finer things in life (or so i like to tell myself :p) and food is obviously one of lifes great pleasure - so why scrimp on such a basic need as food? Especially when your health is affected so much by what you eat.
 
I always think I've probably eaten enough low quality stuff over the years to have done the damage already.
 
Eating rubbish food is a false economy - I always buy the best produce I can, also paying attention to the economic and sustainability aspects.
 
Valentino said:
Organic meat improves the health of animals. The human health aspects have been under scrutiny but i think people should stop looking at organic food as better for you rather than better for everything else.

http://www.thcarson.co.uk/whyorganic.htm
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I was refering more to organic veggies, fair point about organic meat though. mainly its quality > everything else

- Pea0n
 
colzboppo said:
I enjoy the finer things in life (or so i like to tell myself :p) and food is obviously one of lifes great pleasure - so why scrimp on such a basic need as food? Especially when your health is affected so much by what you eat.
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Your body doesn't care if it's eating a battery chicken or a free range.

I rarely buy the smart price type stuff, but other than that I'm not that fussed. Chicken/Mince/Beef etc... I will go for the more expensive stuff, vegetables and most other things don't bother me.
 
only free range chicken & eggs
british every other meat
british fruit/veg where possible

i avoid all foreign meat, including Danish/Dutch pork like the plague due to not ageeeing with their welfare standards.
 
I'm mainly concerned with quality, but a close second is animal welfare, usefully they go hand in hand.

Being organic and GM free..well, I couldn't care less really. As long as it doesn't turn me into some sort of mutant. Unless it's the good kind.
 
I think the pork industry, even the English one, is the last of the meat industries that hasn't been 'exposed'. Pretty sure a lot of our pork is caged too.

Only buy Free Range chickens and eggs. The price has dropped significantly since the TV chefs made a big thing about it which is a bonus. I'm not fooling myself into thinking the animals are treated any better but the meat is nicer and the animals at least have the chance to roam around a bit and get some fresh air.

Other meat I'd rather eat less and have better meat. Supermarket meat on the whole is pretty dire, but it's mainly all I can get, so I'll generally opt for the outdoor reared pork and longer aged beef. I can't see the point in spending good money on steak if I'm disappointed with it, so I'd rather spend the same on a smaller bit and have something really special.

Fruit and vegetables; I'm picky about some and not about others. Organic fruit often tastes better and lasts longer. Same for veg but I don't think I feel the need for organic carrots.

I like to buy Fairtrade where possible and it's often no more expensive than the alternative, especially for products where the most exploitation occurs, for example: coffee, tea, chocolate.

Not much of a fan of supermarket bread. I bake my own.
 
Tombstone said:
I honestly cant say that I give a stuff. There is only one factor that enters into my food purchases and thats "Do I like the taste of this". If its a yes then I buy it, dont care about anything pre it arriving in my belly.
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Sums it up for me.
 
I personally find most veg to be, fairly equal, mass produced organic veg doesn't taste much better than mass produced non organic veg. Its still generally made as cheaply as possible, with little flavour, fertiliser pushing for size rather than taste.

Grew a bunch of veg in the garden this year, beans, peppers, tomatoes, all were FAR better tasting than anything I've bought in the shop really ever before.

I would buy at our local grocers who a decade ago were great but sold up and someone else replaced them, not as good quality, not as good pricing and they don't do organic stuff(mostly) and isn't particularly good tasting.

I was actually truly surprised how much fuller the flavour of stuff I grew in the garden was. The only downsize, sometimes, was smaller veg, but you tend to get more off a plant if you get lots of small veg and let it grow more, than let it grow to the size of pesticide treated, GM variety, intesively grown in a greenhouse stuff you find in the market gets to. Though towards the end of the season I did get some surprisingly big peppers that still tasted great.
 
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