Monday, August 29, 2011

10 Good Reasons to Eat Organic

First this is not my two cents and I don't know who to give credit to for writing this but here goes because I liked it:

1.  TREAT YOUR BODY LIKE A TEMPLE
We are what we eat.  And if we want food grown as if the biology inside counted, look to organic food.

2.  INCREASE AGRICULTURAL DIVERSITY
Eating organic helps preserve thousands of agricultural varieties not accommodated by industrial agriculture.

3.  CREATE BALANCED ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES
The community of life extends from the rich microbial ecosystem in living organic soil to the insect, animal and predator communities, all linked together in an interdependent web of life.

4.  WE HAVE CHOICES
Where do the pesticides; herbicides and fungicides go after agribusiness sprays them on food?  Everything goes somewhere: in our water, our land, our atmosphere and our bodies.

5.  AVOID BEING A GENETIC ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT
Only organic food offers us the ability to sidestep the risks of genetically engineered food.  Genetic engineering tampers with a process which took nature billions of years to evolve.  We think it opens Pandora's Box.  Will the genie fit back in?

6.  CREATE A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY
It only takes about ten families eating organic to support one small-scale organic farm.

7.  BLOSSOM THE PLANET
Our farmland is a thin web of living earth blanketing the planet.  It needs to be nurtured and protected.

8.  LEAVE A LEGACY FOR OUR CHILDREN
How do we expect to have seven generations follow us if we don't provide them a healthy future?

9.  MAKE YOUR CONNECTION
Who planned your last bite of food?  You get a tangible and edible relationship with the living Earth every time you eat organic.

10.  YUM!
Top chefs agree: "You need great tasting ingredients to make great tasting food."

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