Organic Food vs "standard" food

[Astrid]

anything which has a parent company of monsanto or nestle we pretty much steer right away from

What I was trying to get at is that with store brands you don't know at all if it is one of those or not. Unless you have inside info, how do you know who is supplying them.

[Kitt3n]

astrid, do you mean like "woolworths select" etc? ie, the actual store's brand?

eta - i dont buy many of them either really

[Bathsheba]

What are typical Monsanto products/brands?

[Trillian]

Bath, you wouldn't come across them - Monsanto are one of the biggest agricultural seed/chemical/fertiliser producers in the world and they are right bastards - there is no nice way or putting it. They have sued farmers for royalties simply because the farmers non-GM canola got contaminated with their GM canola varieties and took them to the cleaners for something that wasn't their fault and Monsanto refused to back down. Unfortunately they also make some of the best agricultural chemicals ie Roundup and as things stand ATM we rely on it for weed control. So that's why I would dearly love to see an end to needing stuff like that just so those beggars get their just desserts.

ETA - you would possibly only come across them if you buy packet seeds for your garden as they do own quite a lot of seed producers, but I am not sure if they own any of the brands sold in Australia or not.

ETA 2 - I just did a bit of searching and found out that Yates are owned by Orica, who like to dump toxic waste and are responsible for the toxic plume under botany bay (somewhere in sydney anyway - botany bay is in my mind for some reason).