Go Organic!
Would you care for a side dish of pesticides with your meal
tonight?
Most sane people would not raise their hand in the affirmative.
So how do you reply in the negative, so that food manufacturers
will hear you?
Go organic! It is healthier for you to not ingest chemicals not
intended for your system. With large-scale food production,
pesticides and chemicals are added to help the earth and plants
perform. Soil becomes depleted with overuse in food production,
so the chemicals are added in an effort to amend that, and to
fight off the pests that invade the off-balance system. The
chemicals themselves lead to an imbalance, causing a cycle of
depletion and perpetuating the system imbalance. In the
meantime, these same chemicals are killing off earthworms, which
eat soil and produce a richer fertilizer than can be
manufactured!
The Environmental Protection Agency lists 60,000 of the 70,000
chemicals produced as being potentially dangerous to our health.
Hundreds of millions of pounds of pesticides are added annually
to the billions of pounds already in the ground, which in turn
leach into the cells of the foods that we will be ingesting. To
top it off, food plants grown in chemical-additive soil contain
more carbohydrates and are lower in protein and minerals. The
chemical fertilizers can also cause a severe lack of magnesium
in plants, which in turn causes deficiencies of magnesium in
humans. This means that the foods we are purchasing are coming
to us nutritionally inferior, in their natural state, as a
result of their production!
Food plants grown in soil rich in natural minerals and humus
have a greater protein content than those grown in chemically
fertilized soils. Calcium, magnesium, potassium and iron
contents of vegetables from mineral-rich organic soil has ranged
from four to many hundreds of times higher than soils chemically
fertilized. These foods are more natural, as a direct result of
their being grown naturally, and clearly more nutritionally
beneficial.
The question is why food manufacturers would continue to use
chemical fertilizers and pesticides, when the risks appear to
outweigh the benefits. It comes down to economics, as usual -
organic production requires a little more labor and effort,
which in turn can make the cost of production a little higher.
By spreading chemicals instead, the result is a cheaper
"solution", with the cost being somewhat hidden in the way of
environmental side-effects and our ingesting chemicals not
intended for human consumption.
Organic foods, when first introduced, were generally a lot more
expensive than their chemically-grown counterparts. What has
happened, as a result of consumer demand, is that the supply of
more organically-grown foods were requested and purchased, and
in turn, the costs have come down. What you have to consider is
how much is your long-term health worth? It doesn't seem to make
sense to purchase foods that are nutritionally deficient right
off the shelf. The purpose of food is to provide our body the
maximum amount of nutrients possible. We certainly don't eat for
malnutrition, vitamin and mineral deficiency, and unnatural
chemicals migrating into every cell of our bodies.
What wouldn't you pay for vitality and the most premium health
you can possibly possess?