Eating organic, local, and avoiding fast food since seeing Super Size Me--can we raise our daughter to have the same foodie values?
Organic foods sales are growing exponentially, prompting some reflection and analysis here and abroad. An AP article says that U.S. sales have grown “15 to 21 percent each year,” and a piece in the British paper The Guardian reveals that U.K. sales grew a stunning 30 percent in 2005. I’m all for the popularization of organic foods, but there are certainly some downsides to this trend: factory-style “organic” farms and attempts to weaken certification standards, to name two.