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Guest
Hello@diegohostettler
I can well understand your concern.
As you know, and as you mention in your message, the packaging helps to distinguish conventionally produced fruit and vegetables from organic products, and at first glance it doesn't really make sense why organic products are packaged in this way.
The explanation is simple: at the moment, the range of organic products is still smaller than the range of conventionally produced products. Due to the type of production, it is simply not possible to offer the same quantity.
It would therefore make no ecological sense to pack a larger quantity of products in plastic. That's why we package organic products.
I hope you can understand that.
Best regards
Tanja
Guest
hello tanja
no, that's absolutely incomprehensible! i'd rather buy a cross-contamination with a non-organic carrot if we can do without plastic packaging.
for the time being, there's nothing left for me but to buy organic at the health food store or at the market.
cheers
diego
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@diegohostettler Yes, what Tanja is saying is understandable ... It's even worse. "Organic" items, as sorry as I am, are more often infected by "organic" pests (bacteria, fungal spores, mold,...), like some stuff that has, perhaps, been radioactively irradiated, or contains antibiotics.
For example, wonderful organic rye bread can contaminate the whole bread rayon with mold.
I'm not going to tell you now that chemical fertilizer is much "cleaner" than "fertilizer" made from "cow manure" (not even if this "fertilizer", as in the ALDI advertisement, is c***ed into the yard by real SWISS cattle ... that's also called "manure" and it's totally crass mega BIO!) BUT: it's probably a good idea to wash your organic vegetables thoroughly before you use them. However, you can probably eat non-organic tomatoes that come from a sterile greenhouse unwashed without any great risk ... they may contain chemicals, but most bacteria and molds won't survive.
brainstuff
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If anything, only vegetables that have been treated with chemical sprays should be packaged in plastic. It makes sense to sell organic vegetables openly. It's a pity Migros doesn't go along with this. Fortunately, there are already better alternatives to Migros...
Hello ivan92
Since fewer organic vegetables are sold than conventional ones, doesn't it make sense to pack the smaller batch and not the larger quantity? Surely less plastic is used overall?
I find your last sentence inappropriate here.
Greetings moz
Guest
Perhaps more people would reach for organic if it was no longer packaged!
Guest
then the logistics have to be right so that not so much spoils in the store!
Guest
I would also like to point out that no food should come into contact with plastic
Here are some research results:
http://www.spektrum.de/news/weichmacher-beeintraechtigen-entwicklung-maennlicher-genitalien/780497
http://www.spektrum.de/news/immer-aerger-mit-den-dosen/1143833
Guest
And it doesn't have to be transported "x" kilometers by truck. Some of the procurement routes Migros has to put up with are enormous. And then, for better or worse, it also blames the consumers because demand is kept in line with supply, which it created itself in the first place. I call that hypocrisy.