why do "rednecks" refuse to eat healthy?

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^That.

And amongst other things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonella
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-coli

The day when the organic community start giving a s**t about their consumers well being, that day i'll start eating organic. Or to put it in terms you people may understand better: A healthy consumer consumes, a dead consumer don't buy products anymore.

The organic comunity cares alot more about consumers than big Ag does.

I personally know several organic farmers, and they really try to grow healthy food and make people aware of how to prepare the food without killing its nutrition and they are held to a much higher standard than Big Ag for the same types of food because of big Ag has its people serving within the USDA.
Some of my farmer friends even have non profit programs that teach nutritional awareness to poor rural comunities which are strongly affected by poor nutrition. I dont see big Ag doing that....they just mostly produce GMO corn and soybeans which are staples for a candy bar.

One lady I know is currently being sued by monsato because their GMO corn pollen was found in her organic corn. She did not steal it why would she...her organic farm is ruined because of nearby GMO pollen. She is being eaten up in lawyer costs and will likely lose her farm.
It is not theft on her part, but gentic pollution on their part, but the courts dont see it that way.



A peanut factory here in Ga which caused the peanut recall back a few years ago found a large batch of peanuts to have samonella...they tested it 18 times before they got a negitive test for samonella, then shipped it out...KNOWING that it was infected. This was not an organic opperation either.

Show me an article where an organic farm caused a major recall for foodborne illnesses.
Organic is part of the solution, not part of the problem.

And the milk I use is very pasteurized, I use horizon milk which is ultra pasteurized.
But recently I have given up drinking milk all together because of a vegan diet. '

Other than including the reference to the south and eating unhealthy, I'd fit your description of a redneck. My husband would too. Our family eats real food... wildlife like venison and wild turkey, vegetables from our garden, raw milk from a farm, etc.

I'll not only be particular about using olive oil, but also be educated about who I'm buying it from... to know how it is processed, what it is composed of, etc.

It goes beyond what's eaten. I hate perfume because it is toxic to breathe in. I think I'm making my point.

You're right about rednecks saying we'll be there in five minutes.

"Rednecks" were eating free-range meat, supporting local agriculture, and preserving heirloom breeds for centuries before it became popular with the Whole Foods crowd. I think you should give Southern cuisine a little more credit. You'll find that fat idiots eat a lot of McD's in the North too, fortunately not everyone in the world is a fat idiot.

"Rednecks" are not restricted to the South or Appalachia. We're everywhere that people actually enjoy putting in 12 to 16 hours of manual labor each day, where neighbors support each other like kinfolk, where relatives will take you in even if you're on parole, where self-sufficiency and supporting one's children are the hallmarks of a mature adult, where service to one's country earns you head-of-the-line privileges at the church potluck, where flying the American flag is something you want to do, where "gun control" means hitting your target with the first shot, where solving problems is more important than complaining about them, where Election Day and opening day of deer season are given the same reverence as Thanksgiving and Christmas, where a man's word is as good as cash, and where brand names like "Levi", "Black & Decker", and "Chevrolet" have more value than "Gucci", "Cuisinart", and "Porche".

I bet this is a big part of it. Perhaps they are concerned about food poisoning but there is a chance they are even more concerned about not associating themselves with what "East Coast liberal elites" eat.

Because organic food is for Communist fa***ts.

You're assuming that reason is somehow something that humans use commonly. Most of the time they are ruled by confirmation bias and post facto rationalization.

Organic cod friend in organic batter and organic oil isn't that healthy I am sure.

If it is served with organic potatoes fried in organic oil with some organic mushy peas, it is my national dish so it must be healthy!

I'm actually tired of picking organic slugs off my home grown organic salads, time for some chemical warfare.

"Organic" is simply the way that all food was grown from the beginning of human agriculture up until our parents' generation. Nobody called it "organic farming" because it was simply "farming." Spread manure, plant seeds, water them, let the sun shine, and pick the fruit. It is a simple method available anyone with access to a little bit of land and lots of hard work. How anyone could possibly characterize "planting a seed in the dirt and watching it grow" as "elitist" or "unpatriotic" is beyond me.

If you think it is more "American" to fork your hard-earned cash over to line the pockets of the fat-cat shareholders of a multi billion dollar international corporation, in exchange for the "pleasure" of eating beef from Brazil, soybeans from China, lettuce from Mexico, etc. all ground up with a bunch of fats and chemicals, meanwhile your "noble redneck neighbor" who has raised cattle for 5 generations is forced to sell his family farm and get a job at Walmart selling cheap Chinese consumer goods...

Hehe! That's the way. Make the cabbage taste like crap! The problem is that pesticides modify the taste and can often be dangerous to humans at certain amounts. When someone makes what is basically a fully human-friendly and ecological anti-pest system that is highly efficient then I am sure everyone will just roll with it.

It's easy to kill slugs with beer and it leaves no harmful residue (on the salad I mean, don't drink the beer!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXmI4S02qco

I agree me and my brother where born in North Carolina Joker is 100% country but by no means is he a redneck btw? The term redneck started out as a insult to Irish people me and my brother Joker are Irish.

Irish and Jewish?

Yeah same Irish father but my mother is Jewish Joker's mother is Germen