When you go to the grocery store to buy your everyday produce, perhaps consider everything that you’ll be eating when you take a bite. Most people wouldn’t like the thought of ingesting poisons and other chemicals, but that’s typically what they get. Organic foods that come from organic farms contain the benefit of containing no unnatural pesticides. Researchers consider low amounts of pesticides to be acceptable, but as these poisonous chemicals build up they weaken your immune system and can be a factor in allergies and conditions including asthma. Chemicals used to grow food also tend to pollute a good percentage of drinking water in the US and other developed countries. The use of chemical fertilizers adds to higher than normal nitrate levels in drinking water supplies which can lead to cardiovascular problems. Farming that is organic can stop most of the pollution that exists in water and thus help an entire ecosystem live healthier.
Because youngsters are at a much higher level of risk involving the use of dangerous pesticides than adults are, natural foods are better for your child’s development. As their brains and bodies are still at a point where they are developing and growing, toxic poisons have the potential to delay your child’s physical and mental development, causing both learning and behavioral problems. The Food Quality Protection Act in the 1990′s was in fact enacted by the EPA as a response to this.
Foods that are organic also tend to contain more nutrients than their chemically produced counterparts. This can benefit not only you, but the very animals that you get your nutrition from. These nutrients continue down the food chain from one level to the next, allowing for maximum nutritional benefits of the final consumer: you. One study found that livestock which consumed natural foods produced eggs, milk, and meat that contained much higher levels of omega-3s, protein, minerals, and vitamins than animals which consumed foods containing synthetic chemicals. These nutrients are passed down the food chain to you, making the case for feeding our livestock a diet of equal quality to our own.
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