Because people value convenience and low costs over most risks. It's actually amazing that Organic food has found as much traction as it has with the increased cost and less convenient shopping.
I'm not surprised about this one. Store tomatoes look really nice, but have no flavour, and it's noticeable with other fruits and veggies too.
People like to make fun of me for buying organic (yes, I know it's not quite what the marketing leads you to believe -- especially depending on its origin) but I do believe it's worthwhile for the environment, me and especially for my kids.
We have scientific studies that also state that having plastic in your blood steam and organs, is okay. So unless we focus research on how plastics are affecting us, just studies saying we found plastic in xyz aren’t going to get us anywhere beyond “we should probably do more research on this”.
> Because people value convenience and low costs over most risks
Enough plastic in your brain has to make you value convenience as your brain dies, but I don't want to know the amount.
OTOH, people have a hard time thinking abstractly, so new phenomenons like that take time to grow. But look at nuclear, once loved then hated… Group thoughts & culture evolve with time so we never know.
this feels like a disingenuous categorization to me. there are sustainability, ethical, supply chain, and other environmental considerations that impact why one might choose organic food. i don’t always, but am lucky to have the budgeting flexibility to choose fancy single-origin coffee or other things with “perceived value”
it feels that comments like this betray a desire to look down on others more transparently than choosing to shop at Whole Foods does