I just listened to a hilarious podcast from NPR discussing a recent study from Stanford University that has the "organic" crowd all in a lather. Apparently, shelling out extra money for the sacred experience of consuming organic food yields no discernible health benefits. A cohort of cultural orphans demanded to know what evil corporation had tarnished their golden calf, but alas, the study was funded internally by the university (which means it was greased with government dollars, adding insult to injury -- public money is pure!).
One discerning listener pointed out that organic crops require pesticides just as non-organic crops do in order to flourish unmolested. The NPR hosts rushed to downplay this poignant observation by asserting that organic farmers used "natural" pesticides, whereas non-organic farmers used "synthetic" ones. Once again we witness the paradox of environmentalism, which says on the one hand that we are all just the products of evolution and have no superior claim over the Earth, yet on the other hand that we are somehow unnatural and taint everything we touch. This also provides a glimpse into leftism's dark heart: self-hatred.
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