To Bonny, I agree that there are SOME folks in this position of not having money to buy the more expensive, natural foods but I stand in line too often behind people who pay for the first half of their groceries (the milk, bread, cereal, cheese, etc…) with food stamps and the second half (the cookies, chips, beer, soda, etc…) with their own money and it pisses me off!

I definitely see in my own groceries stores a swing towards more natural and organic foods on the shelves and though they are more expensive, I’m voting with my dollars for the stores to carry more of this. When more people buy them, the price will come down. Unfortunately, research on the effects of all the chemicals/preservatives/pesticides that are in our foods is lacking and when studies are published it rarely gets media coverage. We need more of that to get the public aware of what we’re ingesting and what our kids are ingesting to get a mass change of attitude on food.

Thanks for the post, Mark!