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Good things About Organic Food
While in Melbourne we came across the Organic Food and Wine Cafe. It was a groovy little cafe in a laneway in the heart of the city. On the wall by the entrance was a list that caught my eye.
The ten reasons why Organic food is best.
1.Organic produce is not covered in a cocktail of poisonous chemicals. The average conventionally grown apple has 20 artificial poisons on its skin, even after rinsing.
2. Fresh organic produce contains on average 60% more vitamins, minerals, enzymes and other micro nutrients than intensively fermed produce.
3. Going organic is the only practical way to avoid eating genetically modified (GM) food. And by buying organic food, you are registering your mistrust of GMO's and doing your bit to protest against them.
4. If you eat dairy or meat products going organic has never been more essential to safeguard you and your family's health. Intensively- reared dairy cows and farm animals are fed a dangerous cocktail of anti-biotics, growth promoting drugs and parasite drugs and many other medicines on a daily basis, whether they have an illness or not. These drugs are passed directly onto the consumers of their dairy produce or meat.
5. About 99% of non-organic farm animals in the UK are fed GM soya. And thee has never been a rerported case ofBSE in organic cattle in the UK.
6. Organic produce simply tastes so much better. Fruit and vegetables full of juice and flavour, and so many different varieties to try! There are about 100 different varieties of organic potatoes available!
7. Organic farms support and nurture our beautiful and diverse wildlife. Over the last thirty years , intensive farming has led to dramatic erosion of the soil, a fall of up to 70% of wild birds in some areas, the destructiion of ancient hedgerows, and the near extinction of some of the most beautiful species of butterflies, frogs, grass-snakes and wild animals.
8.Organic food is not really more expensive than intensively farmed foods, as we pay for conventional foods through our taxes. We spand billions of dollars every year cleaning up the mess that agro-chemicals make to our natural water supply.
9. Intensive farming can seriously damage workers health. There are much higher incidences of cancer, respiratory problems and other major diseases in farm workers from non-organic farms. This is particularly true in developing countries, and for agrochemical farms growing cotton.
10. And if you simply like the idea of your children and grandchildren being able to visit the countryside and play in the forest and fields just like we did when we were young, go organic for the sake of all our futures.