3 Simple Reasons to Eat Organic That Just Make Sense
This isn’t going to be your typical “You should eat organic because it has higher anti-oxidants, helps to fight so and so disease and provides you with all of the essential vitamins and minerals that your body needs” post.
First off, I’ve never seen an anti-oxidant and (ignorantly) don’t know what one is and does. Secondly, the only vitamins that I’ve ever seen look like Barney Rubble and Fred Flintstone.
I’m also not going to get into the debate of whether eating organic is more healthy for you or not and how great it is for the environment.
The reasons that I eat organic are simple and hopefully ones that you can relate to as well. So here they are:
Organic farming is farming. It has always been around. It’s just the way that farming was done for thousands of years and the human population seemed to get by.
Not until the world wars did conventional farming practices, using chemicals, start being employed. For some reason, the traditional farming methods took the name “organic” and this new method became “conventional.”
Do You Really Want to Eat Chemicals? Acetochlor, fenamiphos and parathion-methyl. Um, what? Exactly, those are just some of the common used pesticides. There are hundreds and thousands of them.
What are they? What do they do? How are they produced? I can easily answer all three of those questions – I dunno. What I do know is that I really don’t want them in my body.
It doesn’t seem natural to me. I’ll take my chances of dying from acetochlor deficiencies.
I’ll just stick with the philosophy of not eating third grade science experiments.
You’ll Avoid Frankenfoods. Going along with the avoiding third grade science experiment sentiment, GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are more like high school science experiments. Much more advanced.
Do you really want to eat food that was made in a labrotory? What’s wrong with the way that it’s been grown for the last thousand years?
Personally, I don’t want the guys in white lab coats “making” my food. The food was produced just fine before Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker started to create it.
