The Price Difference

That sounds awesome, oceangypsy. We don’t have that kind of option here, though. Maybe some day!

We purchase as many organics as we can. Fruits, veggies and meats are a priority for organic. It is more expensive, but I have heard this saying before- “I would rather pay my money to the farmer than to the Dr.”
Not to say that eating organic will keep one from getting sick ever, but why expose our selves (and our earth!) to the toxins from pesticides.

I agree in principle, natureelf, but when you have to survive on a limited income, sometimes you still don’t have a choice in the matter.

You are right Orry Main. When organic is out of my price range or not available then I look for produce that is not GMO. On produce, look at the tiny stickers- 4 digits are conventionally grown, 5 digits beginning with a 9 are organic and 5 digits that begin with an 8 are GMO. (avoid the 5 digits that begin with an 8 )

Orry Main, the food co op here was brought together by a group of people that all wanted the same things-organic, local and affordable produce. It became a reality, took some time-but we love it!

I have read about these types of food co ops becoming more popular and available. Perhaps Orry Main, try doing a search to see if there are any in your area.

I agree with you. The higher price of organic foods is the main reason that I don’t buy very much of it. It’s just not worth it to me.

There are some foods that are more important to buy organic. If you google the dirty dozen of produce, then you see a list of the top 12 things you should try to buy organic.

I like to grow my own vegetables to cut the cost of buying and also growing them the way I want to, without using chemicals….

i buy more locally grown than i do organic… but try to avoid as much as i can of processed, treated food.

In chemistry, valence, also known as valency or valence number, is a measure of the number of bonds formed by an atom of a given element. “Valence” can be defined as the number of valence bonds[1] a given atom has formed, or can form, with one or more other atoms. For most elements the number of bonds can vary. The IUPAC definition limits valence to the maximum number of univalent atoms that may combine with the atom, that is the maximum number of valence bonds that is possible for the given element.[2]

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The valence of an element depends on the number of valence electrons that may be involved in the forming of valence bonds. A univalent (monovalent) atom, ion or group has a valence of one and thus can form one covalent bond. A divalent molecular entity has a valence of two and can form two sigma bonds to two different atoms or one sigma bond plus one pi bond to a single atom.[3] Alkyl groups and hydroxyl ions are univalent examples; oxo ligands are divalent.

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Over the last century, the concept of valence evolved into a range of approaches for describing the chemical bond, including Lewis structures (1916), valence bond theory (1927), molecular orbitals (1928), valence shell electron pair repulsion theory (1958) and all the advanced methods of quantum chemistry.

March 30, 2012 — After hearing three days of heated arguments this week regarding key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the nine justices of the Supreme Court will cast their initial votes today. Their decisions may change before the final ruling expected by the end of June, but in the meantime, the country is now left to wait and wonder about the law’s ultimate fate.

Here, WebMD answers some frequently asked questions about the Supreme Court case, breaking down a number of possible ways in which the court could rule, and the potential effects of those decisions.

Could the whole law be overturned? If so, what happens?

Yes, one possibility is that the Supreme Court justices will decide to toss out the entire law.

“If the entire law is overturned, we go back to the way things were before the law took effect in March 2010,” says Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access, a California-based health care consumer advocacy coalition.

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That means the expansion of both private health insurance and Medicaid would be eliminated, and that the roughly 32 million Americans who were expected to gain health insurance in 2014 would remain uninsured. “It would be a tremendous loss of expansion of the coverage we were expecting,” says Linda Blumberg, senior fellow in the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center.

As for the millions of people who have already gained health insurance as a result of health reform, they would lose that coverage. That includes the 2.5 million young adults who are now able to remain on their parents’ health plan until age 26, as well as the nearly 50,000 Americans with pre-existing health conditions who gained coverage through the government’s Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans (PCIPs).

Other benefits already in effect could be lost as well, including:

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Small business tax credits to companies with 25 or fewer employees that offer health insurance to workers
The right to appeal an insurer’s decision
Preventive care with no co-pay
Drug discounts for people on Medicare
No more lifetime limits on health insurance spending
Review of unreasonable insurance rate increases
The requirement that insurance companies spend at least 80% of the money they collect on medical expenses
In addition, says David Lipschutz, policy attorney for the Center for Medicare Advocacy Inc., already-implemented structural changes to Medicare that are intended to slow rising costs would be lost. That includes new arrangements in which hospitals and doctors team up to better coordinate care, as well as reforms to the way in which health care providers are paid that emphasize quality over the volume of services provided.

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How quickly would new benefits gained under the law go away?

Exactly how people would be impacted by the law being overturned would vary across the country, experts say. According to Wright, “Insurance plans have adapted to meet certain consumer protection standards under the health reform law, and would have to abide by the contracts they’re in now.” When the time comes for those plans’ annual renewals, however, most insurers would likely revert to their old ways.