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Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa
Does your fruit taste better than someone else's fruit? I don't care that Government (really just food lobbyists dictating regulation and certification) is so lax on letting anything be labeled organic. My point is that what I've been eating tastes much better. if your fruit is labeled organic but it doesn't taste that great, I will not buy it.
there was a great radio article 2-3 years ago on peaches. remember when peaches tasted great? these days most peaches on the market have been genetically modified to look great, but taste like sawdust. In response, some farmers down South increased their presence of original seed grown peaches, which spread, and having a locally grown, small farm peach, though not as "pretty" is like biting into a ball of honey.
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I only sell to boutique stores and rarely buy store bought so I have no refenece point. I will say that all California avocados taste better than Chilean avos. No question, yet Chileans sell for 30% of ours. This low cost will put all Ca. growers at risk but of government welcomes the products and is in fact opening the market to Peruvian products soon.
Just like China, with their products we are giving up quality for price.
Shaun, if you taste the difference more power to you. My point was that the "organic" label my have no meaning. Buying fruit by location of the farm may have more value (taste better) than the label.