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Sustainable Development

Why 'Organic'?

"Organic Farming", also known as "biological farming".  It is different from "Modern (Industrial) Farming".  

 

Modern industrial farming is a type of intensive agriculture which depends totally on cheap and plentiful oil.  It is not sustainable, because the oil will run out.  And, worse, the oil farmers burn is damaging the planet by causing climate change.  "World food production is at risk from farming methods that have degraded soils, parched aquifers (underground water sources), polluted water, and caused the loss of animal and plant species," says a 2001 report. (Source: World Resources Institute and the International Food Policy Research Institute report, February 2001)

 

 

  • When you buy organic food, you support farming which is sustainable. Because no hazardous chemicals are used, farmers don't get contaminated and nor do their families.

  • Organic farming is friendly to our planet and the wonderful diversity of living things on it (often called biodiversity)

  • Organic foods should be free of pesticide (or other synthetic chemical) residues.  Nobody knows what the long term effects of eating slightly contaminated food might be.  High levels of pesticide residues can kill or poison people.  Lower levels of residues may cause cancers.  And some, in much smaller amounts (just a few parts per trillion - 1,000,000,000,000!) can cause damage to a developing child's intelligence.

  • There seem to be  real differences in minor nutrients with organic fruit and vegetables being better.  Although this is obviously very important, hardly anyone has done any serious work on just how much more nutritious organic food might be.

  • Organic product does not contain genetically modified organisms.

  • Many people claim that organic food tastes better.

  • A study from Washington State University (US) shows that organic food makes better business sense as well as being better tasting and kinder to the planet.

 

Here's some useful links which tell you much more about why sustainable organic farming is a method whose time has come:

 

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