People ask me why I choose organic products...I have lots of my own personal views...health benefits, reduce my exposure to gross pesticides, decrease my carbon footprint...etc. Here is a segment of "the green book" by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen that discusses the benefit of organic food...
-You can lower your exposure to pesticides by 90 percent just by choosing organic varieties of certain fruits and vegetables. If just 1 percent of the nation's farmlands converted to organic (nonchemical) agriculture systems, it would remove twenty-six million pounds of pesticides per year from the food we eat and from the environment. If you buy organic, you'll encourage this type of farming.
I don't know about you...but I think pesticides are gross. Eating food with a side dish of pesticide sounds really gross! Support your local/organic farmers! :)
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