Why Organic
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Reduce The Toxic Load: Keep Chemicals Out of the Air, Water, Soil and our Bodies:

Buying organic food promotes a less toxic environment for all living things. With only 0.5 percent of crop and pasture land in organic, according to

USDA that leaves 99.5 percent of farm acres in the U.S. at risk of exposure to noxious agricultural chemicals.

Our bodies are the environment so supporting organic agriculture doesn’t just benefit your family, it helps all families live less toxically.

 

 Reduce if Not Eliminate Off Farm Pollution:

Industrial agriculture doesn’t singularly pollute farmland and farm workers; it also wreaks havoc on the environment downstream. Pesticide drift

affects non-farm communitieswith odorless and invisible poisons. Synthetic fertilizer drifting downstream is the main culprit for dead zones

in delicate ocean environments, such as the Gulf of Mexico, where its dead zone is now larger than 22,000 square kilometers, an area larger than New Jersey,

according to Science magazine, August, 2002.

 

Protect Future Generations:

Before a mother first nurses her newborn, the toxic risk from pesticides has already begun. Studies show that infants are exposed to hundreds of harmful

chemicals in utero. In fact, our nation is now reaping the results of four generations of exposure to agricultural and industrial chemicals, whose safety was deemed

on adult tolerance levels, not on children’s. According to the National Academy of Science, “neurologic and behavioral efects may result from low-level

exposure to pesticides.”Numerous studies show that pesticides can adversely affects the nervous system, increase the risk of cancer, and decrease fertility.

 

Build Healthy Soil:

Mono-cropping and chemical fertilizer dependency has taken a toll with a loss of top soil estimated at a cost of $40 billion per year in the U.S., according to

David Pimental of Cornell University. Add to this an equally disturbing loss of micro nutrients and minerals in fruits and vegetables. Feeding the soil with organic matter

instead of ammonia and other synthetic fertilizers has proven to increase nutrients in produce, with higher levels of vitamins and minerals found in organic food, according to

the 2005 study, “Elevating Antioxidant levels in food through organic farming and food processing,” Organic Center State of Science Review (1.05)

 

Taste Better and Truer Flavor:

Scientists now know what we eaters have known all along: organic food often tastes better. It makes sense that strawberries taste yummier when raised in harmony

with nature, but researchers at Washington State University just proved this as fact in lab taste trials where the organic

berries were consistently judged as sweeter. Plus, new research verifies that some organic produce is often lower in nitrates and higher in

antioxidants than conventional food. Let the organic feasting begin!

 

Assist Family Farmers of all Sizes:

According to Organic Farming Research Foundation, as of 2006 there are approximately 10,000 certified organic producers in the U.S. compared to

2500 to 3,000 tracked in 1994. Measured against the two million farms estimated in the U.S. today, organic is still tiny. Family farms that are certified organic farms

have a double economic benefit: they are profitable and they farm in harmony with their surrounding environment. Whether the farm is a 4-acre orchard or

a 4,000-acre wheat farm, organic is a beneficial practice that is genuinely family-friendly.

 

Avoid Hasty and Poor Science in Your Food:

Cloned food. GMOs and rBGH. Oh my! Interesting how swiftly these food technologies were rushed to market, when organic fought for 13 years to become federal law.

Eleven years ago, genetically modified food was not part of our food supply; today an astounding 30

percent of our cropland is planted in GMOs. Organic is the only de facto seal of reassurance against these and other modern, lab-produced additions to our food supply,

and the only food term with built in inspections and federal regulatory teeth.

 

Eating with a Sense of Place:

Whether it is local fruit, imported coffee or artisan cheese, organic can demonstrate a reverence for the land and its people. No matter the zip code, organic

has proven to use less energy (on average, about 30 percent less), is beneficial to soil, water and local habitat, and is safer for the people who harvest our food.

Eat more seasonably by supporting your local farmers market while also supporting a global organic economy year round. It will make your taste buds happy.

 

Promote Biodiversity:

Visit an organic farm and you’ll notice something: a buzz of animal, bird and insect activity. These organic oases are thriving, diverse habitats. Native plants, birds and

hawks return usually after the first season of organic practices; beneficial insects allow for a greater balance, and indigenous animals find these

farms a safe haven. As best said by Aldo Leopold, “A good farm must be one where the native flora and fauna have lost acreage without losing their existence.” An organic

farm is the equivalent of reforestation. Industrial farms are the equivalent of clear cutting of native habitat with a focus on high farm yields.

 

Celebrate the Culture of Agriculture:

Food is a ‘language’ spoken in every culture. Making this language organic allows for an important cultural revolution whereby diversity and biodiversity are

embraced and chemical toxins and environmental harm are radically reduced, if not eliminated. The simple act of saving one heirloom seed from extinction,

for example, is an act of biological and cultural conservation. Organic is not necessarily the most efficient farming system in the short run. It is slower, harder,

more complex and more labor-intensive. But for the sake of culture everywhere, from perm culture to human culture, organic should be celebrated at every table

 

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