Trying To Eat Cleaner Produce (2007-11-21)
Is there any doubt that eating organic food is better for you? Who needs all that bug spray or synthetic stuff farmers pump into their cattle? I'm trying to "eat as much organic as possible", so rakuten.co.jp is where I go to get produce lately instead of the local supermarket.
There are many organic farmers on the website, I just randomly pick
the ones whose products suit our needs. I'm not gullible to think
that 100% of the advertised sites are what they say they are (or are
they?), but being in Japan, the chance of a crook selling fake organic
food is relatively low. I hope I haven't been duped.
I got a pretty good box of semi-organic--meaning reduced pesticides
and synthetic fertilisers--produce from this farmer in Ohgata in Akita (
)
Prefecture last week. There's a good variety of veggies in the
box including my favorite broccolini, an absolute rarity in ordinary
supermarkets, woohoo!
I also bought a 5 kg bag of rice from him and got three stalks of dried, ready-to-be-threshed rice as a "gift". I couldn't very well waste food, so I spent 90 minutes in front of the TV removing the outer husk grain by grain. And how much rice did I get? A teaspoonful!
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