Helping out
By eating organic food you’re not
only helping yourself but also your helping the earth. It keeps chemicals out
of the air, water, soil, and us. Buying organic food promotes less toxic
environments for all living things. With only .5% of crop and pasture land in
organic, according to the USDA that leaves 99.5% of farm acres in the US at
risk of exposure to noxious agricultural chemicals. Supporting
organic agriculture doesn’t just help your family, but all the other people
around you. It also reduces if not
eliminate off farm pollution. Industrial agriculture
doesn’t singularly pollute farmland and farm workers. It protects future generations. Before
a mother first has her kid the toxic risk from pesticides has already begun.
Studies show that kids are exposed to hundreds of harmful chemicals. In fact
our nation is now reaping the results of four generations of exposure to agricultural
and industrial chemicals. Build healthy
soil. 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. It also taste better. Scientists now know what we have known all
along. Organic food often tastes better. It makes sense that strawberries taste
yummier when raised organically but researchers at Washington State University
just proved this as fact in lab taste trials where the organic berries were
consistently judged as sweeter, and new research verifies that some organic
produce is often lower in nitrates and higher in antioxidants than conventional
food.
Created by Foerstel Design: Committed
to the Organic Community
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