Organic bananas vs conventional bananas?

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Permalink Reply by Cantaloup Vampire on August 19, 2012 at 7:13am

Ah that guy in his twenties who has discovered the "secrets of longevity" that by coincidence lie in environment-friendly plastic-packed crap that's gonna cost you a fortune and create heaps of symptoms for which you have to buy other crap to compensate and who has just by chance "discovered" that animal products are "healthy", if they also come plastic-packed or as tinctures. Meat causing the devastation it does, grass-fed even more so, is okay but fruits are bad in general because some are sprayed? Don't get scammed.

Non organic bananas are poison for planet and its inhabitants, for sure. But there LOTS of organic fair trade nanners for which the workers get fair loans, the farmers fair prices and no one has to bathe in pesticides for them. If they don't stop breeding, torturing, killing and eating animals despite the horror it implies, I think, we can eat organic bananas no just despite but because there are toxic varieties of farming, too.

Your shopping list is your ballot card.

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Permalink Reply by ednshell on August 19, 2012 at 7:17am

well said! :)

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Permalink Reply by Chris P. on August 20, 2012 at 4:45am

I think it's wonderful that young folk are caring about health, I wish I had cared earlier! That said, yes I also raise an eyebrow when I see quite young folks with the "secrets of longevity". It's kind of like being an end-times prophet, by the time anyone realizes you are wrong, it wont really matter to you anyway.

Great points you made :)

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Permalink Reply by ednshell on August 19, 2012 at 7:16am

organic and better yet, sustainably grown, (like Earth bananas), are very good for the environment. just don't buy conventional! there is a good thread on this around here somewhere but can't find it right now.

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Permalink Reply by Jade on August 19, 2012 at 9:18am

What are Earth bananas, and where would you find them?

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Permalink Reply by ednshell on August 19, 2012 at 9:23am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf_OoS8XUuI

they taste ten times better than dole organic.

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Permalink Reply by Jade on August 19, 2012 at 9:58am

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Cantaloup Vampire on August 19, 2012 at 9:39am

Sounds great! I'll look into that. Thx :)

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Permalink Reply by Leslie on August 19, 2012 at 9:53am

I think GMO corn, soy, or beets are much, much more worse. But yikes, it's sick seeing the fruit I buy the most getting sprayed with so much chemicals, even after it's picked.

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Permalink Reply by Aydriana on August 20, 2012 at 5:13am

Asking important questions about a diet I'm on makes me a troll?

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Permalink Reply by Trevor Gates on August 20, 2012 at 5:29am

If you were not "on" this diet what diet alternative would you be on and is such diet sustainable?

I grow bananas myself and I can tell you first hand that they are most definitely sustainable. Gigantic mono crops sprayed with chemicals are never sustainable no matter what they are.

Eat fruit and be merry,

-TG