Study: "Organic" Food can turn people into Jerks

wolfi622

This is even funnier because it's a real study.

http://todayhealth.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/18/11737146-does-organic-food-turn-people-into-jerks?lite

glittersoul

I'm not surprised by that article. People can be rude when they think they 'know' more than you and are 'doing it right'.

lovetobethin86

LMAO maybe its just the type of people they are. I buy organic, not religously but whenever I can and I certainly am not judgy or rude to other people lol. Its their life style choice! How was that person at the market supposed to know they needed to bring their own bags? Oyyy some people!

dvisser1

It's a law in the city of Seattle. Designed to reduce use of one-time-use plastic bags. It's like 5 cents per bag, but still the vendors are required to sell them to the customer if the customer wants a bag and did not bring their own. Voter initiative approved law.

Lea_8D

That article is ridiculous. They weren't even testing "organic people" (i.e. people who eat organic food):

To find out, Eskine and his team divided 60 people into three groups. One group was shown pictures of clearly labeled organic food, like apples and spinach. Another group was shown comfort foods such as brownies and cookies. And a third group -- the controls -- were shown non-organic, non-comfort foods like rice, mustard and oatmeal. After viewing the pictures, each person was then asked to read a series of vignettes describing moral transgressions.

So they were comparing groups of people who looked at different sets of pictures. Then the results were not even very different between the groups:

"We found that the organic people judged much harder compared to the control or comfort food groups," says Eskine. "On a scale of 1 to 7, the organic people were like 5.5 while the controls were about a 5 and the comfort food people were like a 4.89."

This type of article is called "Click Bait". It's meaningless drivel.

ninerbuff

The "food police" here in general seem to think that "dirty" eaters like myself aren't going to be healthy, won't lose weight or can obtain the physique they want unless they do it "clean".

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taunto

I just wanted to say thank you for posting this. Gonna forward this to a bunch of departments at my University tomorrow to piss a few people off

lovetobethin86

It's a law in the city of Seattle. Designed to reduce use of one-time-use plastic bags. It's like 5 cents per bag, but still the vendors are required to sell them to the customer if the customer wants a bag and did not bring their own. Voter initiative approved law.

Oh really?? Weird! I didn't now that, I also don't live in Seattle lol. My organic store sells paper bags or reusable ones too if you forget yours...thank goodness because I always forget mine, drives me nuts!