Organic movement split over air-freighted food

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For the taste both aspects, the way food is grown and also how it is handled, are important. Vegetables from organic farms have more time for growing and ripening and as a consequence they can develop their intensive taste, while food from the Third world is often harvested too early. Bananas, for example, are put into airplanes when they are green and are ripening there, without sunlight and fresh air, until we can buy them in the supermarkets. It’s obvious that this food can’t taste as well as the one from the organic farmer.

The way food is grown is more important for the price because the transportation costs are so low that they don’t have much influence on the prices. Growing food on organic farms causes much more costs and the prices increase. Cheap products are often from the Third world countries and are transported over thousands of miles.

For the healthiness it is more important how food is grown because local farmers can use pesticides, too. The transportation of food can’t contaminate food in the way pesticides can.