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16 Excellent Reasons to Eat Organic Food & more!

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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.


Read more:
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/15-reasons-to-eat-organic-food.html#ixzz1V6ej0hnZ

1 more reason--- they're often not any (or much) more expensive than
the poisonous/pesticide laden stuff that corporate america calls food.
As consumer demand increases, the supply will also increase and the
cost will decrease. Typically the people who eat, grow, and sell
organic foods aren't victims of the horrible plague of extreme greed.
They are not acting like crazy monsters. Their minds, hearts and
other organs are functioning very well, they are guided by their
morals, and they know when they have had enough.

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All good people who are mature enough to accept it, share a
responsibility to humanity & all future generations to do whatever we
can to help try to make this world a better place than we found it. In
the past 100 years, mankind has befouled it's nest more than ever
before. That behavior is not typical of any other mammals. A
significant part of the blame can be placed on the ignorant inclusion
of toxic chemicals in the water, air and food. That is a huge mistake
that we can not afford to ignore.

Just because the world seems to be going to hell in a hat basket, is
no reason for us to turn our backs on the tremendous opportunities
that we all have -- to pitch in and try to help clean up the mess, to
try to prevent too many more messes from being created.

A growing number of very mature and wise people are asking themselves
what they can do for the good of humanity. Three big cheers for them.
They are in the vanguard. That approach is destined to become the
norm.
By their efforts the world will be saved from the claws of those who
are sick with greed and selfishness!

Nobody with a functioning brain should ever be bored. This is a time
of tremendous opportunities to help make the world a better place.

BW

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