Advantages of Organic Food

Farmers in order to increase their yield from their crops have had to add more fertilizer and pesticides to ensure maximum growth of each plant and crop. Non-organic food also includes genetically modified plants (GMP) which have been modified to grow larger and better. Fruits you consume which are not organic, forces you to consume more than two dozens of chemical pesticides.

Those absolutely affect your health Fruit in particular that has been grown in an organic farm contains much more nutrients than non-organic fruit! That theoretically means you have to eat more of the non-organic fruit to get the equivalent amount but at the same time consume more pesticides… Bad choice!

There are also organic and non-organic meats. Animals are fed plenty of antibiotics and hormones to keep them healthy and make sure they grow and breed as planned - did you know that economics of farming and livestock is crucial factor in their planning? Farmers' pay check is proportional to the amount of beef they can deliver in the market so it's viable for them to produce the biggest cattle possible - but obviously, the hormones end up in our body. Farmers which grow livestock according to organic principles contain inject those hormones making it much less of a risk to the human body. Another approach for organic meat is that animals will grow in free range and fed on organic feed. The growing conditions of the chicken for instance, besides being inhuman, make them to be more sick as the area is dirty; and diseases are passing from one chicken to the other in days as the chicken are stressed and pecking one another on daily basis. Those absolutely has its effect on the eggs and meat quality.

From time to time there are news on various researches which prove that there's a significant correlation between pesticides used in mass produced food with health problems, especially with children. By eating organic foods you remove this risk from you and your family. It's worth sourcing organic food locally as you will find that the price is much more manageable. Also, You will also be helping to protect the environment by eating organic foods - Fertilizers run off fields and cause gender issue in fish. They can also be concentrated in streams and flow into reservoirs and aquifers contaminating our drinking supply.

So in conclusion, the advantages of organic food are quite obvious - the only obstacle from consuming it regularly is the relatively high prices of organic meat and vegetables. Let's believe that this is due to the classic economic principle of demand against supply, and as more farmers and livestock growers understand the benefit - and more important, our need - the organic food supply will increase and the prices will drop. Till then!