Organic or Local?

Given the choice of two identical products, which would you choose? The organic product flown in from miles away, or the local product that’s been produced using conventional (chemical) methods?

Certainly where I am, getting a product that’s both organic AND local is difficult.

Green-Moo

If I really had to choose, I’d go with organic. I know about the fumes and Co2, but this food is going directly into my body and I already have food sensitivities. I don’t want to overload my body. Hopefully, one day, all food will be transported using biofuels and hybrid or hydrogen vehicles.

Good question. In all honesty I would probably go with the local food only because of the transport for the organic. Would rather go organic when possible though.

Sometimes I really feel that I might just say Organic but at times it isn’t the same answer. It would depend, foods mostly I prefer is Organic but not all kinds of foods, some are not organic yet I prefer them over Organic.

For me, it would depend on the food. Chemical additives are bad, long distance transportation is bad and there is nutrient loss along the way, especially if the food is stored for a long time. Some local foods that are not certified organic may still meet many, or all, organic requirements. I’d do the research, and pick the best for my health, which includes overall environmental health. Tough choice.

It’s a difficult question. When we decided to produce free range eggs, we looked at going the organic route and everything would have been fine – except we had to truck feed in from another State because there were no certified organic feed mills anywhere near us.
We decided that the negatives involved in trucking the feed outweighed the benefits of being ‘certified’ organic.

That is a very good question. There are times where I would just automatically say organic. But after you step back and look at the big picture I am not really sure which route I would pick.

Luckily for me, I can buy local and organic. We live in the middle of very fertile land that organic farmers have, in some cases, been growing for near to twenty years. There are farmer’s markets in quite a few towns.
Of course, for bananas, that’s organic all the way for me.

There isn’t anything Organic that is available in the place where I reside. It is hard to find some good food around and everything involves some insecticides and pesticides.

That’s a tough one. I, too, can buy both organic and local, so it’s not too much of a problem. I guess I’d consider how far the organic had to go to get to me: if it’s flying halfway across the world, I’d probably pick local, but if it didn’t have to travel too far, then I’d buy the organic.

There are some things I buy organic regardless, like milk and free-range eggs, and meat whenever I can.

I would always go local if I had to choose between the two. The exception would be that I wouldn’t compromise on welfare standards with eggs and meat, so if it was a choice of local intensively produced or free range that was not local I would choose free range. Where possible if I can’t buy local I do without, but there are limits.

I would probably go for local before organic except on things like thin-skinned fruits and the like. For things that can be scrubbed, local all the way to save fuel.

Sometimes we get to find local stuff not that good enough even in the taste, somehow the organic stuff tastes more good than local. I checked out the milk which is so different when compared to the local.

Ideally both. But if I have to choose organic. I can’t save the planet if I’m dead.