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jetdawgg
04-09-10, 07:27 PM
Posted by Michelle Schoffro Cook Apr 7, 2010 1:01 pm

1. In study after study, research from independent organizations consistently shows organic food is higher in nutrients than traditional foods. Research shows that organic produce is higher in vitamin C, antioxidants, and the minerals calcium, iron, chromium, and magnesium.

2. They’re free of neurotoxins–toxins that are damaging to brain and nerve cells. A commonly-used class of pesticides called organophosphates was originally developed as a toxic nerve agent during World War I. When there was no longer a need for them in warfare, industry adapted them to kill pests on foods. Many pesticides are still considered neurotoxins.

3. They’re supportive of growing children’s brains and bodies. Children’s growing brains and bodies are far more susceptible to toxins than adults. Choosing organic helps feed their bodies without the exposure to pesticides and genetically-modified organisms, both of which have a relatively short history of use (and therefore safety).


4. They are real food, not pesticide factories. Eighteen percent of all genetically-modified seeds (and therefore foods that grow from them) are engineered to produce their own pesticides. Research shows that these seeds may continue producing pesticides inside your body once you’ve eaten the food grown from them! Foods that are actually pesticide factories…no thanks.

5. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that pesticides pollute the primary drinking source for half the American population. Organic farming is the best solution to the problem. Buying organic helps reduce pollution in our drinking water.

6. Organic food is earth-supportive (when big business keeps their hands out of it). Organic food production has been around for thousands of years and is the sustainable choice for the future. Compare that to modern agricultural practices that are destructive of the environment through widespread use of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, and fertilizers and have resulted in drastic environmental damage in many parts of the world.

7. Organic food choices grown on small-scale organic farms help ensure independent family farmers can create a livelihood. Consider it the domestic version of fair trade.

8. Most organic food simply tastes better than the pesticide-grown counterparts.

9. Organic food is not exposed to gas-ripening like some non-organic fruits and vegetables (like bananas).


10. Organic farms are safer for farm workers. Research at the Harvard School of Public Health found a 70 percent increase in Parkinson’s disease among people exposed to pesticides. Choosing organic foods means that more people will be able to work on farms without incurring the higher potential health risk of Parkinson’s or other illnesses.

11. Organic food supports wildlife habitats. Even with commonly used amounts of pesticides, wildlife is being harmed by exposure to pesticides.

12. Eating organic may reduce your cancer risk. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers 60% of herbicides, 90% of fungicides, and 30 percent of insecticides potentially cancer-causing. It is reasonable to think that the rapidly increasing rates of cancer are at least partly linked to the use of these carcinogenic pesticides.

13. Choosing organic meat lessens your exposure to antibiotics, synthetic hormones, and drugs that find their way into the animals and ultimately into you.

14. Organic food is tried and tested. By some estimates genetically-modified food makes up 80% of the average person’s food consumption. Genetic modification of food is still experimental. Avoid being part of this wide scale and uncontrolled experiment.

15. Organic food supports greater biodiversity. Diversity is fundamental to life on this planet. Genetically-modified and non-organic food is focused on high yield monoculture and is destroying biodiversity.

Michelle Schoffro Cook, RNCP, ROHP, DAc, DNM, is a best-selling and six-time book author and doctor of natural medicine, whose works include: The Life Force Diet, The Ultimate pH Solution, and The 4-Week Ultimate Body Detox Plan. Learn more at: www.TheLifeForceDiet.com.

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/15-reasons-to-eat-organic-food.html

micarr57
04-09-10, 08:42 PM
most of the meat we eat isfed soybean meal or corn that is made from GMO genetically modified organisims corn and soybeans you know thats good for you

bootlace15
04-09-10, 10:39 PM
horse crap!!!!!!!!! Man vs Food has it right............................Eat till you drop. however I do know this,the more you eat the more you sh!t..................

Sgt Leprechaun
04-11-10, 07:23 AM
Several points about this:

1: Organic is great. Better yet, instead of buying it, try growing your own. It's not difficult nor expensive.

2: If you don't want to go the organic route, then do some research and see what is in season, when. Most Americans of today don't realize that veggies/fruits actually DO have a 'growing season', and when it's over, it's over. The Consumer, however, still wants their tomatoes, corn, beans, etc. Because of that, these things get imported from other places so that consumers can still have them year round. Well, when you do that, you have no earthly idea WHAT you are getting, or what it's been fertilized with.

Bottom line, if it's not in season, try to avoid it.

3: Buy locally grown stuff. Farmers markets abound, as well as little roadside stands, often run by the farmers themselves, or their kids. Well worth trying.

4: All of this is much easier 'said' than 'done'. It will take a major commitment on YOUR part to accomplish it.

HST
04-11-10, 11:45 AM
16. Organic food cleans all of that conservative bullsh*t out of your system and opens your mind to other points of view

Sgt Leprechaun
04-11-10, 11:57 AM
Hasn't worked on ME yet, and I grow a LOT of food.

Obviously, you must be eating too much chemical tofu, as it's begun to affect your brain.

Only a lemmingcrat could turn this into a political thread.

Sgt Leprechaun
04-11-10, 12:00 PM
To get this back on topic.....

If you have the space, and time, and want to grow a decent patch of veggies, but don't want to spend every single minute of every single day picking bugs and critters off your crops, try raising some Guinea fowl. Guinea's are NOT chickens and require some work to get going and started, but once you do it, you won't regret it. In addition to acting as 'guard' birds, they love to eat ticks, potato bugs, japanese beetles, and just about any sort of living plant pest there is. Unlike a chicken or duck, they don't 'scratch' the ground, but gentley remove the bug from the plant. Perfect pest control. There are a bunch of other upsides to Guineas as well.

HST
04-11-10, 12:10 PM
Hasn't worked on ME yet, and I grow a LOT of food.

Obviously, you must be eating too much chemical tofu, as it's begun to affect your brain.

Only a lemmingcrat could turn this into a political thread.

Its the Marine way, adapt and overcome, never pass up an opportunity.

It might work for you if you stopped planting your crops if the septic field and you stopped using those italians for cheap insect control :D

Sgt Leprechaun
04-11-10, 12:13 PM
LOL. Dayum. I just can't catch a break today.