What is better about Organic?

Question

It cost more and seems to be in high demand, why is that?

Alot of these answers seem to be political, so I will submit it to a vote because none of these seem to be what I was looking for.

Answer 1

It's healthier (no pesticides, no GM), it's better for the environment if it's locally grown, and it's much tastier because e.g.vegetables aren't made to grow to maximum size by using lots of fertilizer.

Good for your body and your conscience.

Answer 2

The chemically grown food can make you sterile ,give you cancer or a variety of skin or i
intestinal complaints if you dont mind that ,no problem.

Many businesses lie about organically grown food because it gets a much better price ,but is more expensive to produce

the only sure way is to grow vegetables your self
or if you know the farmers and know how they operate.


Near Mexico City they grow vegetable with the black waters from the city,and in the village people wash the potatoes with detergent ,nevertheless half the village had stomach complaints related to contamination ,

Vegetable are absorbant ,and chemical substances are impregnated ,including pesticides and herbicides .

This can result in cancer ,infertility,and w hole range of intestinal comlaints .

ORGANIC FOOD

to grow food really organically you have to put tons of compost and work with much more labor ,and big trucks
it is a lot more work ,but the plants & produce are better ,and the soil becomes what is called sustainable ,it gets better with time and farmers can continue to use the same land for many years

the chinampas of Mexico and the terazes of the incas are agricultural projects that continue to be productive after a thousand years ,this is called sustainability.
and they are agricultures that work with strickly organic methods
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CHEMICALLY GROWN
when a farmer uses chemicals he only needs a pickup truck becaues the chemicals come in kilos ,not tons like the composts,and he uses much less labor ,so it is much cheaper to produce ,

but the chemicals impregnate the fruits and vegetables people can get very sick.

apart from that ,the soil become poisoned which goes on to contaminate the ground waters which get purified for drinking water but the PH levels in the water rises which affects sexual devellopment in the fetuses of pregnant mothers ,not to speak of skin,eye and stomach complaints ,or have deformed babies if they get to much of it ,

apart from that the fertilizers in the end kill the micro organisms that make the soil and by the end of the day the soil is dead ,and turns into a dessert when the ground waters are overpumped and dry up .

CONCLUSION
so to chemically grow food is not a long term solution and is very bad for the environment ,with far reaching bad effects,on the people as well as on the land itself.

real organically grown food it more expensive ,but it is much healthier and socially responsible ,

THE POSSIBLE CONS
What is the con ,and this is very difficult to check is that a lot of food says it is grown organically and it is not
or it is grown with out chemicals ,but it does not use organics like composts .

100% SAFE VEGETABLES
the only way ,and this we teach now all over the world ,is to grow you own food .
and you would be suprised at how much you can grow in your back yard
even in 10 square meters ,some people even grow a few tomatoes in flower pots in apartments
this may sound crazy ,but if everybody did it it would be a heck opf a lot tomatoes that can come from an apartment building

PERMACULTURE
there is a whole movement that is geared to this small compact type of horticulture for amateurs ,people who have a backyard or an acre ,a hectare ,what ever
it is called Permaculture and here are some leads

Permaculture is a world recognised earth friendly movement but tends to include people that practice the concept and is active in all fields

Permaculture means permanent agriculture
a concept put forward by Bill Mollisson in the 60`s
which is a complete hand book for environmental design.

the Permaculture designers manual by Bill Mollison,which cost about 40 dollars.
and is the best all round book you can get.(tagiari publishing, [e-mail]) Source(s) some other writers that are on the internet are
david Holmgren
Larry Santoyo
Kirk Hanson

Masanobu Fukuaka has written ,
One-Straw Revolution
The Road Back to Nature
The Natural Way of Farming
http://www.context.org/iclib/ic14/fukuok...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/masanobu_fu...

Simon Henderson
and Bill Molisson.

a representitive of the concept in USA is
Dan Hemenway at [e-mail]
[e-mail]
http://barkingfrogspc.tripod.com/frames....
http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/ypc_catalo...

I am a permaculture consultant in Guerrero in Mexico

http://spaces.msn.com/byderule

Answer 3

check out this article on what is in pre-packaged foods... it's disgusting. I've cut out all the stuff they talk about in my diet and feel sooooooooo much better!! http://www.dldewey.com/columns/hydroilf.htm
Anymore, you can find organic stuff that's not qute so expensive. just look in the mainstream, it's just a matter of getting used to reading ingredients lists. ;) have a good day!!

Answer 4

I lived in Ecuador for 12 years . They had big apples but they were true organic and u could tell it because every insect in the area had lay-ed their eggs in them. They had warts all over them. That is true organic.

Answer 5

dude have you seen the way they treak chickens and cows.... there is a reason why all organic foods especially meat and poultary taste better.

Answer 6

You're not eating hormones, antibiotics and pesticides.

Also, it tastes a lot better too!!!