Why Organic?

Organic is becoming more and more popular word. Do you know why it is so?

Let start with the first question "What exactly does organic mean?"

To explain in a very simple way, organic food is products produced in a totally chemical free environment and so organic products are believable to be good for our health.

"How good organic is to our health?"

Organic products are produced from animals or plants which are grown up without using any chemical substance. As a result, it is friendly to the environment as well as to our health.

The environment is kept away from artificial soil, chemical fertilizer,insecticide, hormone to accelerate growth and all kinds of synthetic substances. With the growing environment in such primitive way, these animals and plants slowly grow up in their own natural way in their own appropriate season.

The fertilizer is also organic.

The fertilizers for organic plants are such as cow manure and growing plants circulation. As mentioned earlier, the plants grow in its own season so different types of plants take turn to be grown up in the same piece of land. Season after season the land is plentiful of nutrition. Also, legume plant is grown and covered up to add nitrogen to the soil. This is a natural, primitive way of fertilizer. The environment with a balance ecological system enable these living things survive without using insecticide. The food chain with hunter and prey works in its way. The great and strong will survive and the weakness will be gone. As a result, we get products rich in nutrition. Good in quantity and quality, safety and best for the environment.

On the other hand, at present, the fertilizer is from chemical fertilizer and the same piece of land is grown with the same kind of plant all year round. It is commercial. The priority is the quantity. The nutrition in the soil is all gone. In addition, more and more of the pesticide is used when the ecological balance is destroyed by the use of pesticide. The agriculturers need to apply more and stronger dosage of pesticide over time. The reason is because of the insects and worms can adapt themselves to fight against the pesticide. The result of pesticide usage is the vegetable and fruits we consume today. They lack of nutrition and full of chemical. The ecological system is destroyed and the agriculturers suffer from chemical diseases like cancer.

With the more complicated method in growing an organic plant also make the prize double which could be a reason for many people discard the decision. However, that may be because they overlook some facts in the above paragraph that organic vegetables and fruits are about twice richer in nutrition than chemical ones. So it is not seems so expensive any more when we also consider other facts. We don’t have to worry about washing them, buying more of chemical detergent to wash them, save water and reduce chemical substance left over and accumulated in our body which over time we may have cancer for free. We may think for the argriculturers that we support them to have a better and longer life away from chemical synthetic substances.

It is now clear that organic food is natural clean and safe for us to consume. However, how can we know which producers are trustable and which are not?

There are many organizations especially set up to monitor organic producers. And their duties may include definition the meaning of “organic”, setting standard, issue organic certification, etc.

One of the leading organic organizations is Ifoam which has over 750 member organizations in 108 countries worldwide.

So now we know how organic is good. What will be your decision for next purchase?

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