I have been doing research for a while now on organic foods. I have always considered organic to be more beneficial to one's health, but I didn't realize just how much healthier it can be. This article talks about incredibly high percentage of flavo-noids in organic tomatoes in comparison with commercially grown varieties.
Also, in an article titled The Results Are In: Organic Foods More Nutritious Than Conventional Foods , author Katherine East discusses a study performed by Newcastle University that reveals even more evidence to support the claim that organic truly is the best option.
Organic produce contains up to 40% more antioxidants than ordinary produce and organic dairy products contain between 50% and 80% higher antioxidant levels. That and the fact that the U.S. uses a growth hormone called rBGH (which has been baned in Europe, Australia, Japan, and Canada...just to name a few) in cows raised for dairy production is enough to make me want to steer away from some of those convenient, mass-production (focus is put on quantity, not quality) foods.
Organic foods (can) cost more, yes, but in the long run I believe it is worth it. It makes so much sense really. If we go around changing the genetics and structure of God's perfect creation, we can only expect that we will get less than wonderful results.
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Good-evening Sallie,
Not all organically grown foods pass the nutritional intergrity test and organics should not cost more than conventional produce , if grown efficiently.
The nutritional density can be easily determined by an optical precision hand-held devise, the refractometer. it costs around $90 to $120. ACRES USA,in Austin Texas is the premier repository of organic farming in the US and can assist with any info. They have a very interesting monthly letter, about $30 a year.
You squezee the juice of whatever you want to test, onto a prism on the refrectometer and it gives you a reading.
My background is soils and field crops, and nutrition and animal husbandry, all within the organics realm.
Organics should not be expensive because there should not be much input from off the farm, other than the fact that it can be labor intensive.
The key to attend to is that the soil is alive and has a good balance of carbon, moisture and trace minerals. Plants need those trace minerals otherwise they start to generate a signal in the infra-red, that acts as a beacon literally to pests and disease to invade the plants, because lacking trace minerals there are not fit for consumption by higher animals.
That is nature's way of ensuring that what we eat is nutritionally sound. But man thinks he is smarter than nature and instead of addressing the nutritional gap in the soils, dowses the plant and land with toxics. Nature is still steps ahead as pests and diseases become resistant to man made toxic molecules. There is already over 37,000 agro-chemicals, all toxic and more are made each year.
Has the human race lost it's God given senses?
It is greed! although natural safe answers abound.
The repeatedly demonstrable facts, even in the scientific realm, are that good health is seated firmly in good and proper nutrition.
The mining nature of modern farming, and the toxic chemicals deprive the land of balanced fertility, and crops thus grown are nutritionally imbalanced.
Anything that eats those crops inherits that imbalance, that is why we are all sick most of the time.
Matters are made worse by the unnatural processing of the foods we eat.
Who benefits from the constant illness of the population? I do have a clear answer and a lot more at my blog:
http://www.healthbodyhuman.com
By the way,here is a repeatable experiment. If you were to grow two tomato plants in separate containers, one with balanced soil and the other with IMbalanced soil.
Put the plants close together and intertwine them.
The pests will selectively molest the leaves of the IMbalanced plant and will not at all bother the balanced plant.
Sallie, maybe i should do a blog on organic gardening if you have enough readers with interest.
May God, the Creator, bless each one of you readers.
Iam Alice S.
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Thank you for your comment, Alice. I really appreciate your knowledge on the subject. I agree with you completely, organic should not cost the consumer more. I also know that we can not only go by an "organic" label off of items in the grocery store (I wish!).
I would love to learn more about organic gardening (and I might just try out your tomato experiment). It is a topic that very much interests me and I'm sure my readers would enjoy it, too.
~Sallie~
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