Extensive research has proven that organic food is better for us and our children, as well as animals, wildlife, and the environment.
Soil care and preventive farming methods, like crop rotation, creates fruits and vegetables that contain up to 50% more vitamins and nutrients than intensively farmed foods. Encouraging organic farming methods and gardening practices allow organic soil to rebuild and contribute healthy vitamins and minerals to feed crops, and you.
Organic foods have higher levels of many disease-fighting antioxidants and essential vitamins, including Vitamin C.
Industrial pesticides and fertilisers used in intensive farming contain toxic chemicals, residues of which remain in the food they are involved in producing. Such chemicals are responsible for a number of common allergies and have also been linked to serious diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s.
An organic diet significantly lowers these risks because organic farming uses natural methods to produce foods much safer for humans.
From a health perspective, organic foods and beverages such as organic apple cider vinegar, goji berry, and acai berry are recognised as having significant health benefits for circulation, digestion, and infections.
This is a major advantage of organic food. Very little data actually exists regarding the safety of genetic modification and there are grave concerns the negative effects are being ignored because of the huge profits these controversial production methods generate.
The advantages of organic food and farming reach far beyond our own health and well-being; organic food is safer for the entire planet. The procedures and methods used in organic farming protect the structure and the nutrient content of the soil and preserve its worth over time.
Such practices also conserve valuable natural resources, as organic farming requires less water and energy. Organic meat production is safer and more humane for livestock than industrial farming methods. Instead of spending their lives in dirty, cramped cages, animals raised for organic food enjoy fresh air and open space.
The routine use of antibiotics is prohibited as a purely preventative measure and growth hormones are prohibited outright. Animals are fed an organic diet to ensure a happy, healthy life. Slaughter is also far more humane.
Organic farming methods and practices are also beneficial to wildlife, unlike commercial methods of food production. Toxic chemicals used in commercial farming can be deadly to birds and other wild animals that depend on the land for food.
Traces of chemicals on seeds and berries can have a tremendous impact on the health and safety of all life forms that come into contact with them. Industrial farming also destroys natural habitats by cutting down hedgerows and trees in order to take more land for growing, and to make these areas easier to farm.
In the process local eco-systems are affected as animals, insects and even microorganisms are displaced from their natural and rightful place in the environment.
The advantages of organic food are clear. If the fresher, more appealing taste isn’t enough to win you over (ok that’s really the 6th advantage), then the incredible health benefits should. Plus organic food is not just better for you and your family, but for the entire planet.
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