Why Eat Organic? What Are the Benefits?

Why eat organic? What are the benefits of eating organic food over conventionally grown food?

Are they more healthy? Do they contain more nutrients? More minerals? How much more expensive to eat organic? Can I afford to eat organic? Who eats organic?

I know, you have a lot of questions. So do I. Let’s find out the answers together.

We eat to live. Not live to eat. But we won’t mind if we can eat to live and enjoy eating at the same time. Here are some of the most obvious benefits of eating organic:

1. Organic food is more healthy.
   • No synthetic pesticide is allowed in organic farming. You do not want to eat food that might make you sick. You must have heard of food poisoning. That’s when food makes people sick. With all the pesticides and You know they apply pesticides to kill pests and protect the vegetables and fruits that we eat, right? How much of that pesticide is still on the vegetables and fruits when we put them on our table? Can simply washing remove all the remnants of pesticides?
   • No antibiotics are allowed in animal feed. One of the causes of precocious puberty is antibiotics kids have absorbed through their food.
2. Organic food is safer.
   • No GMO input is allowed in organic food. Food produced according to organic standards have been feeding people for at least thousands of years. Scientists might argue all they want for or against the damages that might be caused by GMO to human health, but do you want to be their lab mouse? I do not.
3. Organic food taste better. Well, as they say, the proof is in the pudding.
4. Organic farming is eco-friendly. With all the chemical fertilizer, herbicides, pesticides, applied every year in the fields, how much end up in our water source? How much species suffer as a result of this agricultural pollution?
5. Organic farming is sustainable. Organic farming utilizes methods like crop rotation, green manure, compost, and biological pest control.
6. Organic food is usually produced locally, thus more fresh when it is put on your kitchen table.
7. By eating organic, you support local economy, especially through programs like Community Supported Agriculture.

The more I think about all the good things from eating organic, the more I am determined to eat organic and grow organic, and invest organic (that’ll be the topic of another post). Where I live, organic food is much more expensive. For now, I buy some and I grow some.

Now if you don’t mind, I’ll have to tend to my vegetables in my backyard.