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Why You Should Consider Buying Organic Food
by: Gray Rollins Besides the fact that organic food tastes better and it reduces the amount
of cancer-causing chemicals that enter your body, there are plenty of other very
good reasons why you should buy organic food. Here are just a few: Organic Meat Comes From Healthier Animals The animal from which you got your meat is guaranteed to have been healthy
throughout its life. Why? Part of the criteria governing organic products is
agreeing not to use antibodies to treat an illness. Animals that are raised with
the ultimate goal of being organic are raised in more humane conditions (as
outlined by the United States’ Humane Society). These better living
conditions result in healthier animals and healthier animals simply are less
prone to illness and disease. Of course, nothing can guarantee an animal will
never become ill, and occasionally one will require antibiotics to cure an
ailment. When this situation happens however, the animal that was treated with
the antibiotics must be removed from the organic farm. The affected animal loses
its organic status and is usually sold to a conventional farm where it lives out
the remainder of its life. Buying Organic Is A Form of Protest When you buy organic food, you’re basically making a statement that
you care about what you’re putting into your body. So much is happening
to our food before it enters the supermarket. We hear about it, yet we do
nothing to stop it. If you ever took a few moments to think about all that food
is exposed to, from start to finish, the details likely would boggle your mind.
Sure, all that perfectly-shaped produce and those rather full-sized chicken
breasts look enticing, but those perfections are the end result of growth
hormones, genetic engineering, and an abundance of pesticides and fertilizers.
You’ve probably heard the saying, “Nature is not perfectâ€Â
countless times, yet time and again you continue to reach for that perfect
tomato. When you buy organic, you are in effect saying you don’t want to
be part of that scene any longer. When enough people buy organic, and more are
making the switch every day, food companies will be forced to listen to
consumers. It’s Something You Can Do to Protect the Environment The chemicals that go onto the fields that produce the fruits and
vegetables you eat and that feed the cows and pigs that turn into your
hamburgers and pork chops contaminate the soil and the water. This affects the
animals that live off the land and it also contaminates the environment. When
you choose foods that are produced without these cancer-causing chemicals, you
are not adding to this problem. Your purchases likely won’t put an end to
environmental damage, but as with all things in life, change begins with one
person. Get a few friends to change their buying and eating habits, and then
have them get a few friends to change and soon enough, a sizeable impact will be
in the works.
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