Eating Organic Really Is Cool :)

The article "When eating organic was totally uncool" by Pha Lo, is a recollection of the author's experience as a child being apart of the fist generation of Hmongs in America. Because of their background, her family, including others in the small Hmong-like community, had to resort to an organic lifestyle for survival as they were scared for their safety being among "Americans" as they became targets of a failed secret war.

Her ultimate goal is to expose the absurdity of society's urban obsession with eating organically as she despised it growing up. In this work, the author gives a recollection of the simplicity of this hipster lifestyle which has now become a global phenomenon because of its purity and the good it does for your body; also because it is accessible to all social classes, from people who eat this way as a means of survival and to rich old "white" ladies at farmer's markets who wants to "boast about their eggs in their backyards, or how much their garden looks like the one on the White House lawn" (Lo, 2011).

Lo, creates a contrast between the misery she felt growing up and having to live that lifestyle but now being so proud of her family for being proficient in the field of producing organic food that they could eventually profit off of it. This article gives us insight to the writer's childhood and the struggle she felt having to cope with wanting so much to become someone else but she eventually becomes understanding because she somewhat becomes apart of the crowd.

I think many could benefit off of educating themselves about organic food and to engage in this lifestyle. Some organic diets can actually energize one's body and in the long-run, positive results will show in eating healthy.