A while ago, i did a piece on "What is NOT in Whole Food, such as:
Antibiotics
Growth Hormones
Pesticides
Herbicides
Fungicides
Hormone Disrupters
Toxic Metals (i.e. arsenic)
Aflatoxins (fungal by products) etc.
I read an article a while after writing that blog on organic foods. The article was questioning the nutritional advantages of eating organic. It may a some facts in the statement that organic foods are't any more nutritious than non-organic foods. That would be an individual decision. However, there are other benefits you may find just as rewarding. Some of the comments will piggy back off what i wrote, others will give you more insight.
No Pesticides- It was found that organic foods contained substantially lower levels of pesticides. The is a highly valuable benefit, considering that pesticides are considered to be connected to many diseases, cancers, kill cells, and infertility. The chemical contact from the pesticides are believed to have also proved that exposure to pesticides is reduced by approximately 90% when eating organic.
No GMO's - My questions is "why modify foods? Well, most GMO's have been modified to withstand higher doses of some type of pesticide Studies show that 90% of non-organic foods contain GMO material. On the other hand organic foods forbid any use of GMO's.
No Antibiotics - Antibiotics have been prevalent in farming to accelerate the growth process (meats on steroids; makes meats fatter) have been taking the lives of thousands of Americans. 80% of the antibiotics used in the U.S. go to feed livestock, in order to fatten them up quicker. If antibiotics can be fatal to animals, just imagine what it can do to humans. Can these same antibiotics make humans fat? of course, they can. Organic farmers are also required to feed their animals food not containing GMO's, and to give them room to roam around. That why they're called "cage free".
They don't eat human sewage. Non-organic farmers are not allowed to use human sewage from municipal water treatment plants and fields, it's illegal. Organic certification banned the use of sewage in their fields.
No scary additives. Processed foods usually have additives in them that have been tested for health side-effects, using Americans as human guinea pigs for experimentation purposes. Some has been determined to cause brain cell damage!
Now ask yourself, are the benefits enough for you to determine if the "cost" a major factor in eating organic.
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