Does eating Organic make you a jerk?

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  • ashfuse
    ashfuse Posts: 224 Member
    Being a jerk makes you a jerk. Eating organic is unrelated.
  • Derpina7
    Derpina7 Posts: 552 Member
    Hahah, really people?! :noway: As said - being a jerk makes you a jerk, I know nice people and not so great people that buy organic. The same goes for 'regular' food shoppers.
  • SinuousNihilist
    SinuousNihilist Posts: 61
    THAAAAANKS!

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    Totally what I think about this topic.
  • iKapuniai
    iKapuniai Posts: 594 Member
    Does eating Organic make you a jerk?

    Yes... yes it does. lol jk
  • california_peach
    california_peach Posts: 1,809 Member
    Yes, a study was done and probably paid for by our tax money...

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

    I have not read all the replies and I apologize if someone already brought this up, but I don't see anything to indicate who funded the study. Not all scientific studies are funded by the government. This could have been paid for with tax payer money, but it would have just as easily have been paid for by Frito-Lay or the Doris Duke Foundation. I can't tell without reading the full study, and that is not something I actually want to do.
  • Koshkaxo
    Koshkaxo Posts: 332 Member
    Please don't jump all over me but I believe there may be some truth to that. Not necessarily that eating organic makes you a jerk, but I think many people who are already jerks are drawn to eating organic, for little or no other reason than self-righteousness. It's really the thing I don't like about shopping at Whole Foods, where I usually encounter a nasty jerk or two. Having said that, I think there are many nice and thoughtful people, like myself and many of you, who eat organic because they understand the benefits, and as another commenter said, are lucky enough to afford it.

    HAHAHA! Yeah, it's called being pious, holier-than-though, and you'll be followed by a cloud of foul-smelling smug. There's all sorts of causes of this: religion, politics, miles per gallon, reusable grocery totes, beer/wine/cheese snobbery, etc. There's all sorts of good things out there that are ruined by people who need to put themselves on pedestals.

    I see you, south park reference! Love it.

    I mostly see hipsters at the organic food markets, and not all hipsters are jerks but I find a lot to have a higher opinion of themselveshaha
  • manderson27
    manderson27 Posts: 3,510 Member
    1st Scientist - "Shall we have a go at curing cancer?"
    2nd Scientist - "No, I'm going to see how many fruit pastilles it takes to choke a Kestrel"

    Courtesy of Frankie Boyle (Mock the Week) :laugh:
  • kayemme
    kayemme Posts: 1,782 Member
    There's all sorts of causes of this: religion, politics, miles per gallon, reusable grocery totes, beer/wine/cheese snobbery, etc. There's all sorts of good things out there that are ruined by people who need to put themselves on pedestals.

    Maybe the answer to this question is more that people project their own "jerkiness" on to others. I bring my own bags to the grocery, and I don't think twice about it. I also don't think that people judge me either way for doing it, but that doesn't mean they don't. But I don't care if people judge me for doing something. So jerks come where jerks are looking for jerks!

    Make the world you want to live in!

    edit: Most of the things we do is out of frugality, not to put ourselves on pedestals.

    If someone thinks we're doing something in particular so that others think we're "cool" or "hip" well, then I guess that's just something they have to deal with, not me ;) Neither of us really care what other people think of us.
  • SinuousNihilist
    SinuousNihilist Posts: 61
    Please don't jump all over me but I believe there may be some truth to that. Not necessarily that eating organic makes you a jerk, but I think many people who are already jerks are drawn to eating organic, for little or no other reason than self-righteousness. It's really the thing I don't like about shopping at Whole Foods, where I usually encounter a nasty jerk or two. Having said that, I think there are many nice and thoughtful people, like myself and many of you, who eat organic because they understand the benefits, and as another commenter said, are lucky enough to afford it.

    HAHAHA! Yeah, it's called being pious, holier-than-though, and you'll be followed by a cloud of foul-smelling smug. There's all sorts of causes of this: religion, politics, miles per gallon, reusable grocery totes, beer/wine/cheese snobbery, etc. There's all sorts of good things out there that are ruined by people who need to put themselves on pedestals.

    I see you, south park reference! Love it.

    I mostly see hipsters at the organic food markets, and not all hipsters are jerks but I find a lot to have a higher opinion of themselveshaha

    HA! I didn't see this before. Aw, they beat me to it!

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