Wal-Mart is Helping to Degrade Organic Food Standards

re: Wal-Mart is Helping to Degrade Organic Food Standards

Kentucky Woman — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:19:26 GMT

It's obvious to me that NOTHING sold at Wal-mart can truly be organic. I can't eat any of their foods on the produce stand or in permeable packaging because it is so contaminated with fragrance chemicals. Everything we buy there reeks of per"fumes". Sadly, this includes their foods - and their organics are just as fragrance-contaminated as the rest of their edibles.

I don't even buy clothes there anymore because it's almost impossible to get that stink out of the clothing. So just imagine what it's doing to their edibles.

re: Wal-Mart is Helping to Degrade Organic Food Standards

Anne W — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:35:05 GMT

An excellent book to read on the entire industrial organic complex is The Omnivore's Dilemma. It was published just this last year, I believe and I was amazed at the so called organic companies such as Earth Bound Farms which are owned by large commercial food organizations such as General Mills. Lucky Charms, anyone??

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TinaK — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:50:26 GMT

I have been trying to find raw milk. I never lived within a reasonable distance but there is a place in Lecanto Fl called Golden fleece farms that sells it. It's over an hour away but apparently raw milk can be sold at retail if it's labeled "pet food only." My regular natural foods store has it. I'm too far from Whole Foods too. best pet food I ever drank! of course as pet food, it's not going to be labeled kosher but I asked my rabbi about it and he told me although he wouldn't drink it,(he's Lubavitch), the deal with milk is adulteration, like pig's milk, and that's not a problem in this country. I doubt a guy committed to small farming and reclaiming the earth for a natural diet is going to mix cow's milk with anything unacceptable especially if he wants to get raw milk legalized. BTW in NJ it was legal in my lifetime. Walker Gordon div. of Borden's was not pasteurized and doctors found it better for babies who could not be nursed and did not tolerate pasteurized milk. don't remember why the State closed it down. reminds me of medical marijuana and how it suddenly became illegal. but that's another post :-)

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SWALE — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:38:58 GMT

Do you think there is any connection between these consumer groups--who are overwhelmingly Liberal, union-loving Democrats--and the ridiculous smear campaigns going on against Walmart? Does anyone have any idea how much union money flows to these groups? These attacks are being funded by the unions who demand Walmart employees join them, even though they repeatedly have shown they do not want to.

In my own town, all the employees of our neighborhood grocery store lost their jobs when a union forced the store out of business through the sleaziest door-to-door smear campaign one could imagine. The employees repeatedly voted to NOT unionize, as the owner/management of the store already treated them so well. Did the union care about this? Well, the union's threat to put them out of business became a reality. They sure showed them!

Maybe someone should do a little expose on THAT! Do we TRULY care about truth?

re: Wal-Mart is Helping to Degrade Organic Food Standards

Laserman — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:04:52 GMT

Wal-Mart is striving to be the number 1 seller of "organic" food in the U.S.A. I've read that at this website and other places. I don't know if they have similar plans for here in Canada. I never go to Wal-Mart. I don't believe one company should have so much power over both the factors of production, and the labour required to sell that product. I'm fighting it in my town, I don't want to see small local companies decimated.

Sorry to get sidetracked, but I wonder if Dr. M. or anyone can tell me about Earthbound Farms. Are they partnered with Wal-Mart in its "quest"? Are they truly organic? From what I have read they are very large, which at first impression seems contradictory to organic practices.

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mmc88121 — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:24:46 GMT

Considering Wal-Mart is the only place I have seen "organic" white sugar I agree with you. I try to by most of my foods at a health food store or local grocery store. Wal-Mart claims to help the local economy. However, more local stores close after they show up than open up.

mmc88121

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Russ Bianchi — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:25:44 GMT

I strongly recommend everyone see the documentary on Wal Mart entitled: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICES before you patronize Wal Mart again...of all the top billionaires on the Fortune 400 list, the children of Sam Walton, founder of Wal Mart, are by far the least charity/good works giving, by any measure.

It is extremely hard, if not impossible, to argue that value for money is not delivered by Wal Mart.

It is extemely hard, if not impossible, to argue the vast majority of America has benefited in consumer goods prices as a direct result of the Wal Mart model.

However, in the terra-forming of a stable middle class, the strength of any democractic society, or as in the case of America, a representative republic, when you watch this film, you can only come away from it a little more enlightened, sad, and perhaps, just perhaps, willing to JUST SAY 'NO'.

If the coming centuries will be, as has been suggested, the golden age of global geo-political and economic dominance by China and Asia, let it be known here and now, that one of the nails in the American coffin was indeed Wal Mart in it's present form...

In point of FACT, we have no one the blame but OUR$ELVE$.