Vani Hari on buying organic and local: recommends

Hari recommends buying organic produce and buying from local farmers. In her Feeding You Lies guidance, she advises shoppers to check PLU codes to identify organic produce in the store.

Her stated reasoning is that organic and local sourcing reduces pesticide exposure and supports better food quality. She argues that shopping from local farmers connects consumers more directly to where their food comes from — the third question of her “Three Questions” test — and that organic standards offer a simpler way to avoid many of the additives and pesticides she campaigns against.

This recommendation sits upstream of her pesticide and glyphosate activism: choosing organic, in her framing, is how individual shoppers act on the same concerns she pushes at the regulatory level.

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