Farmers switch to organic food
Sunday, March 26th, 2006We often point out that if you eat rubbish i.e. the junky, processed, chemical-loaded mush that often passes for food these days, you shouldn’t be surprised if sooner or later it affects your health and your back.
Why? Because you loading your body up with toxins that will accumulate over time and interfere with your body and back’s ability to function correctly.
The solution is simple - eat less junk and eat more fresh, natural food. Organis is generally better because the production process introduces far fewer chemicals into the food and organic farmers are usually more quality focused.
More and more organic produce is available. More farmers are switching over, and when you talk to them, the reasons are usually the same. They’ve suffered toxicity (from farm chemicals) themselves or their friends or family have.”
Or their animals. organic farmer Chris Eggert says that in his last year of chemical farming on the land that is now converted to organic, “we spent $20,000 on vet bills for our dairy cows - problems like retained afterbirth, mastitis - caused by poor nutrition related to the grass grown using urea [artificial fertiliser]. The soil was getting hard, and had higher salt content. If the animals are getting sick, then it stands to reason the milk isn’t that good.”
Research newsletter: http://www.organicfqhresearch.org
UK organic organisation: http://www.soilassociation.org
US research site: http://www.organic-center.org
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