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I *never* buy non-organic produce. I have organic produce readily available, so why wouldn't I buy it? Today, I went to Whole Foods, and bought some grapefruit, and the only ones they had were conventional - I'm not completely militant about buying organic, so I bought a few to have on hand ... at a buck a pop. I just had one, and it was *terrible*. Not only was the moisture lacking, but it had a foreign bitterness to it that I can't explain away as being citric acid. I had about 25% of it, and hurled the rest in the garbage can, seething. Okay, now, my palate is pretty finely tuned (it's obvious to me when they change the formula for the coating on Advil, for example), but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people would think this grapefruit was just plain lousy. So, maybe I just had a crummy grapefruit. Or, is it possible that I'm tasting chemicals? I hypothesize that water-filled fruits are the most disgusting of all to buy non-organic, since all that liquid is probably loaded with chemicals. I'm not sure how they measure concentrations (maybe parts-per-million?), but I am sure this grapefruit tasted like hell, and it wasn't rotten or moldy. Not for one second do I think that you can spray chemicals on trees and vines, and *not* have them penetrate succulent fruits - the water inside comes from *somewhere*, and that somewhere has almost certainly had contact with pesticides. There's a saying in the wine world: "It's hard to be organic when your neighbor isn't," so I'm not completely naive when it comes to this - there's most likely a continuum of chemical concentration, as opposed to an on/off switch. Any thoughts about this? Surely this has been written about many times before, but there's a lot of junk when I try to Google it.
