Organic agriculture
is the best possible produce for our children’s health, our own health, our
communities and our country as a whole. Organic
agriculture is a production system that sustains the health of soils,
ecosystems, and people, it relies on ecological processes, bio-diversity and
cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than the use of inputs with adverse
effects and organic agriculture combines tradition, innovation and science to
benefit the shared environment and promote fair relationships and a good quality
of life for all involved.
Supporting big-business
agriculture and factory farming can have negative effects on your health. Factory
farms have a “reliance on pesticides, require heavy doses of insecticides and
herbicides and an increasing need for fertilizers”. There are other negative
effects of industrial agriculture, including “environmental and social costs,
damage to fisheries, constant clean-up of surface and groundwater polluted with
animal waste, increased health risks from pesticides, increased ozone pollution
via methane byproducts of animals and global warming from heavy use of fossil
fuels, and industrial agriculture also uses huge amounts of water, energy and
industrialized chemicals.” (Wikipedia).
If all those reasons weren’t enough, consider
this photo comparing organic to industrially grown crops:
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