http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2010/10/is-your-local-organic-food-neither-local-nor-organic/ A Heaping Helping of Food News, Science and Culture Sat, 18 May 2013 18:34:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2010/10/is-your-local-organic-food-neither-local-nor-organic/comment-page-1/#comment-3236 WilliamB Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:42:49 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=6929#comment-3236 I agree that "organic" doesn't mean what some proportion of consumers thinks it means. I now use "happy" to describe meat or meat products that grow or are raised, for a the lack of a better term, "as god intended." Usually this means outside and eating food that's outside, although not necessarily only food they find for themselves outside and definitely not just grass. Chickens eat insects and pigs are happier if they have extra food provided in addition to what they root around for. The term "pastured" is coming to mean this, but if it ever becomes popular it *will* be corrupted or misused. I suppose we'll find yet another term then. I agree that “organic” doesn’t mean what some proportion of consumers thinks it means. I now use “happy” to describe meat or meat products that grow or are raised, for a the lack of a better term, “as god intended.” Usually this means outside and eating food that’s outside, although not necessarily only food they find for themselves outside and definitely not just grass. Chickens eat insects and pigs are happier if they have extra food provided in addition to what they root around for. The term “pastured” is coming to mean this, but if it ever becomes popular it *will* be corrupted or misused. I suppose we’ll find yet another term then.

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