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How Does the Earth As a Whole Benefit From Organic Foods Being Grown?
Organically grown foods do much more than just taste good and protect you from consuming harmful toxins. They also help the Earth as a whole to be a better place. This is why so many people want to grow organic foods and why so many consumers out there are eagerly buying them. We all know that it is our responsibility to make Earth better than it is right now. When we contribute to pollution and global warming though we are going to end up with a world that isn’t so wonderful to live in.
There are plenty of traditional methods out the for growing food. However, they aren’t the best for the environment. Think about all of the food that is grown and to know that almost all of it involves processing that is harmful for Earth should be a fact that makes you uneasy. So what are you going to do about it? Hopefully you will decide to grow some organic foods yourself or at the least buy them when you can.
Traditional methods of growing food involve using chemicals to kill pests and to kill weeds. These toxins though get into the soil and into water supplies. They also get into the air that we are breathing. When you consume these foods there is still some residue left as well that you will be taking into your body. Animals that live in bodies of water where the run off goes can be harmed. Should you consume any of that seafood then it is even more toxins being taken into your body all the time.
Organic Food Benefits – Beyond the Nutrition
Ever wonder how you can have the greatest impact on the largest problems facing mankind today?
Seriously, if you had the ability to just step back away from everything and ponder how we, as mere individuals in a sea of humanity, could each contribute solutions to the some of the greatest crisis our planet has ever faced, do you really think you would be able to hazard a guess as to how you would do this?
What if you discovered that doing one simple thing slightly differently than you do every day, week, month, and year could help make our world a much better place?
It would cost you more, at the time of purchase, than you currently pay, but not much. In fact, compared to the benefits you, your loved ones, and the rest of the world would reap, it would be the equivalent to fractions of pennies on the dollar.
Organic Vs Conventional: Food Processing and Production
Ever heard the popular phrase you are what you eat. Is this really true or just some catch phrase with no real value? If you eat too much chicken will you eventually turn into a chicken? It’s safe to say that you wont turn into a chicken and start laying eggs but while you are sitting at your dinner table to feast on your chicken meal, you may also want to consider what the chicken ate for dinner? In other words, what’s really in the chicken that you’re eating. This question doesn’t just apply to chicken but anything that you eat and the answer may vary depending if the food is conventionally produced or organically produced.
So what is the difference between organic vs conventional food. Foods that are conventionally produced such as meat, dairy products, fruits, vegetables and grains involves the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, hormones and antibiotics. The use of these products are to kill weeds, make plants grow faster, prevent diseases and in the case of meats make the animal grow and fatten up quicker. Due to this faster production time conventional foods are usually cheaper because it requires less time for growth, therefore you can have more abundance in a short period.
Organic food however requires more time to grow, therefore more labor, more people to hire to do the labor and lesser abundance. For example a mass production slaughter house may be able to produce 10,000 chickens in a month while an organic chicken farmer may only be able to produce 5,000 chickens in a month. Due to the longer processing time of organic food and the fact that more manual labor is involved, such as pulling up weeds instead of using herbicides and using worms to ward of pest rather than using pesticides the cost is usually higher.
