Why Eat Organically Grown Foods?

Organic foods are grown & produced with only natural fertilizers & contain no man-made pesticides or herbicides.  "Certified Organic" foods are guaranteed by independent and/or state agencies to meet these requirements & to have been grown in spoil that has been chemical free for at least three years.  A program to set national standards for organically produced foods has recently been adopted by the United States government & was implemented in 1998.   However, of interest is that the standards set by the government are questionable so it is best to "consider the source" of your organic foods.

To keep dangerous, unwanted chemicals out of your food & consequently out of your body.   The correlation between pesticides & herbicides with serious health risks is steadily increasing.  Severe nervous system disorders, several types of cancer, major hormonal imbalances, immune system damage, reproductive problems & many other degenerative diseases are being link to unhealthy dietary practices & especially to pesticide ingestion.  DDT, malathion, & several other pesticides whose use has been outlawed in the United States, are amazingly, manufactured here, shipped to other countries where produce is grown, & then exported back to the United States where we consume it.

Huge conventional farms predominantly rely on fossil fuels to produce their crops.  They use man-made pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides, & giant machinery that all pollute our environment.  Although organically frown foods appear to b more expensive at this time on the retail level,. in fact they are not!  If you consider all of the hidden costs in conventionally grown foods such as federal subsidies, hazardous waste cleanup, & pesticide testing and regulations, the real cost of conventional farming is about six times higher that we pay in the store today.