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courtie, there are a ton of things I'd do with it, many of them things that could be done by hand or with another blender.. but a vita prep is a work horse, it does things faster, and better. Emulsifications for example are super easy. Then there are the things that cannot be done with anything but a vita-prep, such as pureeing thick ingredients with adding little or no liquid. Try to stuff a pound of spinach in a typical blender.. pretty much nothing will happen, but with a vita-prep..
wuf, on your rant about organic food. I really don't even know what to say. You seem to be mocking the use of the word organic. While the word chosen by the industry may be misleading, nonetheless there are differences between what is called 'organic' and 'nonorganic' foods. Failing to recognize that beef that has been fed growth hormones is less healthy for you (and the world in the way of waste runoff that goes into our water systems) than beef that has not been given these drugs is a huge oversight.
There are a ton of problems with the system though.. you have to pay out the ass to be certified. So you have a lot of small independent farms who have been 'organic' for decades yet cannot say so because they cannot afford the fee. Then you have subsidiaries of mega corps like Horizon, owned by Deans, who can artificially lower the price of organics making for an unfair marketplace for true organic dairy producers. They can do this because when a Horizon cow gets sick, instead of taking it out of production or even slaughtering it, they just ship it off to Deans where it is fed antibiotics and can continue producing.
So while I do agree that 'organic' is not always all its cracked up to be.. there is a difference between organic(whether its certified or not) and nonorganic. As for the price being higher.. well the food is more nutrient dense in many cases. Go find a good farmers market and buy some eggs (yes, the 'organic' eggs sold at walmart are better than the typical eggs, but to really see a difference go to a good farmers market.) Another example would be carrots. When using organic locally grown carrots from the farmers market to make stock, I can use less because they are not the bred-for-size nutritionally void horse carrots. So the price actually ends up evening out.