Thumb Organic LLC is located at 130 E. Huron in Vassar, Michigan 48768. We are 10 miles east of Frankenmuth, MI.
Thumb Organic LLC evolved from an original idea of opening a food and beverage shop specializing in moderately priced, high quality products. As we searched for companies that could meet our product needs, it became apparent there were too few distributors serving specialty stores in our area. We simply could not find enough high quality products for our business.
As a result, we changed our focus from retailing the products of others to sourcing and distributing our own products. The change to Organic products was the inevitable result of our search for high quality.
The end result: We now source and distribute a growing list of Certified Organic Products that meet our twin goals of organic origin, and high quality.
Consumers Deserve Better Food:
In this prepackaged, salted, sweetened, hydrogenated world, health has become secondary to convenience. Consumers need to fundamentally question how they approach food and nutrition. Convenience is a poor substitute for healthy lifestyle choices.
Americans have the cheapest food in the world. Unfortunately you get what you pay for. If you look at the overall variety of this cheap food you will note a serious lack of diversity in crop production which is positively frightening.
The current business model of intensive monoculture farming and reliance on a very few varietal strains is an ecological disaster that is happening as you read these words. Intensive monoculture mega-farms are not the answer. The rise and spread of global diseases that are disproportianately damaging to our current intensive agribusiness farming practices by the shear lack of available alternatives should be a wake up call. When considering biodiversity and resource management in farming production, our eggs are literally all in one basket. Current farming methods are solely based on business models which demand consistency and scale to succeed. These business models are not necessarily consistent with good farming practices since they place undue emphasis on biological similarity. The biological pool for our agricultural products is getting smaller not larger.
When our leaders reward monolithic corporations, presented and packaged as "farmers", for behavior that is inconsistent with long term stewardship, you end up with our broken system. We have earned this looming food crisis by disregarding the near and long term consequences of trying to shape nature to our needs rather than working in concert with nature. In our desire to always get the most for the least we may end up with very little. Modern agrigultural practices primarily related to lack of biodiversity leverages our reliance on the remaining few varietals. Under this leverage, the consequences of crop failure is far greater than necessary.
Learn more about the food you consume. An educated consumer is a healthy consumer. To see just how common Genetically Engineered and Genetically Modified crops have become check out the PEW Trust fact sheet on GM crop production in the United States.
