Blog Entry #2

I had heard the term “organic” before, but I never fully understood what it meant. Like most people I just assumed it was a self-explanatory word. A term that means normal animals grow in normal conditions on normal farms. It appears though, that what I thought is just what the industries would like everyone to think. But is this really that bad? It feels like we are being tricked in a way into believing they are better than other farms but I really don’t mind this betrayal. To my knowledge, eating their food hasn’t harmed me or presented any risky effects from eating it. I do not feel that this debate extends to the consumer as much as it is a fight between competing farmers.
On a similar note though, the treatment of animals on these farms is labeled as better and more humane than big industry farms. But the author explains the kind of loop hole these industrial farmers are getting away with. For example, the term “access to pastures” was used as a requirement for being organic animals. At first this sounded fair, but the author explains that “access” could just mean that the animals can graze for a set period in their lives then be confined for the rest of it.