Organics-To-Go

The building I work in has a little cafe called "Organics To Go". It's very clean and shiny. They put up posters with informational quips about eating organic, healthy, pure food. The posters have photos of friendly, ethnically diverse people. We should all eat good pure food. They have colorful, artsy furniture. They have a salad bar. They have special water, and special chips, and a fancy fruit basket. Everything is organic.

This morning, while getting my usual cup of seemingly organic coffee I noticed the Organics-To-Go staff preparing food for the day. There were opened CANS of food behind counter. And not just your regular sized can of beans. I'm talking about the gigantic can of beans that you buy at Costco because you have 8 kids to feed, and that is how you save money. The gigantic can of corn that ends up on a shelf at the 99cent store because it is so frighteningly BIG.

I realized that all of the seemingly organic food at Organics-To-Go WAS COMING OUT OF A CAN!!!!

Now I don't mean to state the obvious but doesn't canned food imply chemicals and preservatives, and organic food imply no chemicals and no preservatives? And not to beat a dead horse but how can Organics-To-Go be pure and organic if it comes out of a can?