Why Choose Organic Food?
If you're like many people, you're concerned about the chemicals that may be in your foods and personal care products. Pesticides and chemical fertilizers that
You wash our produce well – but is that enough? Some will say no and encourage you to look into organic foods as an alternative. And you can't wash certain foods very well... dairy products, eggs and butter for instance. If you read any book about detoxification you’ll find recommendations that you choose organic foods whenever possible. Some analysts have even claimed that organic foods have higher nutritional values than the same foods grown with pesticides. They certainly taste better!
Pesticides used to keep vegetables free of insects and pests are toxic to the body as well as harmful to animal life (and humans as well). Rain can wash these pesticides off of the leaves of the plants and into the ground and the water table. The particles in factory smoke release toxic fumes in the air. Acid rain resulted from rain water mixing with these chemical particles. Now that scrubbers exist on smokestacks, the toxic release is less, but can still be unhealthy.
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