Organic foods

What is organic?

I think in this day and age the term organic is being used as a fashionable term rather than true representation of the product. Afteral all food is organic, it's a living thing. I am seeing it more and more that products are being labeled with the organic label. When it comes down to it organic is just eating naturally grown food.

The term organic farming was coined by Oxford University agriculturalist Lord Northbourne, in his book Look to the Land, and published in wartime England in 1940. It was a response to what he dubbed chemical farming, and from the outset he presented these as two mutually incompatible, and contesting, agricultural methodologies. (found here)

 *When you buy organic food, you support farming which is sustainable. Because no hazardous chemicals are used.

*Organic foods should be free of pesticide (or other synthetic chemical) residues. Naturally grown.

*There seem to be real differences in minor nutrients with organic fruit and vegetables being better. *Although this is obviously very important, hardly anyone has done any serious work on just how much more nutritious organic food might be.

*Organic produce does not contain genetically modified organisms.

*Many people claim that organic food tastes better. How many people do you hear say, ‘oh yum, home grown vegies!’

This cartoon may be funny, but it is so very true. 

The chickens we buy from the major supermarkets are only a few weeks old, still chicks. It takes about five months for a home grown, non-hormone fed chickens to be ready for eating.

How you ever wondered why there are so many food allergies now days...in this day of mass produced, quickly grown, green house foods. I wonder if kids that are say allergic to tomatoes are allergic to the fruit or the chemicals that help it grow and would they be allergic to home grown, sun ripened products too? 

You might be one (like I was) that sees organic food products as much more expensive. It can at times be like that (fashion equals more expensive) but it doesn't have to be. Shop around, buy in bulk, buy with friends and share.