“Doublethink is the acceptance of or mental capacity to accept contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time, especially as a result of political indoctrination.”
George Orwell, from “1984”
April 10, 2014 – Wal-Mart to push organic food into mainstream
May 12, 2016 – Walmart nixes organic food brand after only 2 years
In case you haven’t figured it out, the folks in charge are lying to you about basically everything.
Let me give you an example.
If organic food grew at a pace beyond that of non-organic food from 2012 to 2015:
(Total U.S. food sales grew by only 1.6 percent in 2009, while organic food sales grew by 5.1 percent. Organic food was “continuing to outpace sales of non-organic food” in 2012, and was expected to “continue to outpace total food sales in the year ahead” in 2016.)
And the U.S. organic market grew 33.5% from 2012 to 2015:
(5.3% in 2009, 9.5% in 2011, 13.5% in 2012, 11.5% in 2013, and 11% in 2014, and 11% in 2015)
Then how is it possible that organic food represented 4.2 percent of all U.S. food sales in 2012, and 5% of total food sales in 2015?
It’s not possible. The folks in charge are lying to you about basically everything.
Here’s another example:
In January, 2014, we were told “ US organic food market to grow 14% from 2013-18 .”
Then the U.S. organic food market grew 11% in 2014 and 11% in 2015.
The propaganda technique used in that case being to make softball predictions or projections that defray, hedge and stonewall against the positive news you are trying to downplay or obfuscate.
Here’s another example:
If 4.2 percent of all U.S. food sales were organic in 2011, and The U.S. organic market grew 9.5% in 2011, and organic was continuing to outpace sales of non-organic food as of April 2012, then how could the percentage of U.S. food sales that were organic in 2012 remain flat, at 4.2%?
It couldn’t. The folks in charge are lying to you about basically everything.
Here’s another example:
If sales of organic products in the United States rose 11.5% from 2012 to 2013’s, how could that growth be called “ the fastest growth rate in five years ” when sales of organic products in the United States grew 13.5 percent from 2011 to 2012?
It can’t be, unless you’re just lying and making stuff up, like the folks in charge do about most everything, thinking the rubes - or I - will never notice.
Here’s another example:
If a “rapid expansion in consumer demand continues to provide opportunities for U.S. producers to enter high value markets” (2016), then how come the growth rate of the sector is decreasing and flattening since 2012? (13.5% in 2012, 11.5% in 2013, and 11% in 2014, and 11% in 2015).
It’s not. They’re “massaging” and “adjusting” the data, like they do with temperatures and rainfall. Can’t completely fake it, but can spin it, twist it.
Don’t forget use of neurolinguistics programming trigger words: “Organic Food Industry Explodes as Consumer Demand Spikes .”
Spike implies that demand has shot up, but will plunge back down again right away. On a graph, that sharp up/down tracking line is a “spike”.
“ America’s Appetite For Organic Foods Triggers A Natural Farming Boom .”
Remember, it’s a “ Boom. ” You know, as in boom-bust ? Boom , you know, as in “ ka-BOOM! ”?
Trigger, boom ! Scary! Explosion! Neurolinguistic programming.
Any…trick…in the…book.
Except none of them are working, anymore.
April 23, 2010 – “While total U.S. food sales grew by only 1.6 percent in 2009, organic food sales grew by 5.1 percent.
April 26, 2010 – organic product sales in 2009 grew by 5.3 percent overall, to reach $26.6 billion.
As of 2011, 4.2 percent of all U.S. food sales were organic.
April 23, 2012 – Organic Food Sales Growth Outpaces Industry - BusinessNewsDaily
Organic food sales now represent 4.2 percent of all U.S. food sales,
April 24, 2012 – The U.S. organic market grew 9.5% last year, breaking the $30 Billion mark for the first time, and continuing to outpace sales of non-organic food.
January 3, 2014 – US organic food market to grow 14% from 2013-18
January 8, 2014 – U.S. sales of organic food in 2012 exceeded $81.3 billion— up 13.5 percent over 2011;
April 10, 2014 – Wal-Mart to push organic food into mainstream
May 15, 2014 – Sales of organic products in the United States rose to $35.1 billion in 2013, up 11.5% from 2012’s $31.5 billion and the fastest growth rate in five years.
April 15, 2015 – U.S. Organic Food Sales Rise 11% in 2014
April 17, 2015 – Organic Sales Increase 11%, Totaling 5% of Food Sales - The Food …
April 20, 2015 – Organic Food Industry Explodes as Consumer Demand Spikes
August 27, 2015 – Global Organic Food Market to Grow at Over 16% by 2020
January 9, 2016 – 8 Signs Americans Are Moving Towards a Healthier, Saner Diet …
January 9, 2016 – With organic food sales in the U.S. soaring to nearly $36 billion in 2014 and the organic category now accounting for close to 5 percent of all U.S. food sales , organic farmers are reaping considerable benefits.
February 16, 2016 – The rapid expansion in consumer demand continues to provide opportunities for U.S. producers to enter high value markets.
March 14, 2016 – Growth of organic products is expected to continue to outpace total food sales in the year ahead
March 14, 2016 – Organic produce — healthy eating or a waste of money? | FC&A
March 23, 2016 – Are the Benefits of Organic Food Worth the Price? | KQED Education …
March 28, 2016 – Organic Foods Still Aren’t As Mass Market As You Might Think npr.org.
April 5, 2016 – America’s Appetite For Organic Foods Triggers A Natural Farming Boom
May 12, 2016 – Walmart nixes organic food brand after only 2 years - The American …
Walmart is the country’s largest grocer but has been slow to become an organic powerhouse on the same scale, stymied by the food’s often higher production costs and unique supply chain, clashing with the retailer’s low-price model.
May 24 ,2016 – U.S. organic food sales reached $39.7 billion in 2015
The booming U.S. organic industry posted new records in 2015, with total organic food product sales reaching $39.7 billion, up 11% from the previous year , according to the Organic Trade Association’s 2016 Organic Industry Survey.
May 26, 2016 – USDA - Organic sales account for over 4 percent of total U.S. food sales
June 29, 2016 – Organic Food Sales Up 72% Since 2008 - Crops - News | Agweb.com
[I saw this sign in a coffee shop which featured organic coffee-- **‘Eat Organic Food, Like Your Grandparents Did!’** The nazi chemcartel demon turned Western farmers into unwitting serial killers after the nazis won WWII. African farmers, on the other hand, mostly can’t afford to poison their fields but they can afford orgonite and they’re getting healthy and healthful bumper harvests from that, mainly without irrigation, too. I love the way they sidestepped the chemical cartel, don’t you? . Jeff makes good use of repetitiveness in the openings of his posts. After all, as Mein Kampf’s author (Rudolf ‘Fraulein Anna’ Hess?) points out, Big Lies need to be constantly repeated in order to take effect so maybe simple, obvious truths need to be repeated in order to undermine the Big Lies. I’ll repeat, here, that Jeff is evidently the only soul among our species, at the moment, who systematically collects and publishes good, genuinely empowering news and that astonishes me every day. ~Don]