Organic Foods

Here is why you should eat organic foods:
1. Keep chemicals off yout plate ~ Pesticiddes are poisons designed to kill living organisma, and thus are harmful to humans.

2. Protect future generations ~ Children are four-times more sensitive to exposure to cancer-causing pesticides in foods than adults.

3. Protect water quality ~ The EPA estimates that pesticides pollute the public's primary source of drinking water for more than half the country's population.

4. Organic farmers work in harmony eith nature ~ Three billion tons of topsoil is eroded from croplands in the U.S. each year, and much of it is due to conventional farming practices, which often ignore the health of the soil.

5. Save energy ~ More energy is now used to produe synthetic fertilizers than to till, culivate and harvest all the crops in the U.S.

6. Help small farmers ~ Although more and more large-scale farms aer making the conversion to organic practices, most organic farms are small, independently owned and operated family farms.

7. Support a true economy ~ Organic foods might seem expensive at first. However, your tax dollars pay for hazardous waste clean-up and enviromental damage caused by conventional farming.

8. Promote biodiversity ~ Planting large plots of land with the same crop year after year tripled farm production between 1950 and 1970, but the lack of matural diversity of plant life has negatively affected soil quality.

9. Nourishment ~ Organic farming starts with the nourishment of the soil, in turn producing nourishing plants. Well-balanced soil produces strong, healthy plants thathave more nutrients that conventionally grown produce.

10. Flavor ` Organic produce simply tastes better.

(2006 Intergative Nutrition)