Eating only organic foods can improve your health and help the environment. No matter what type of food you eat, or diet plan that you follow, organic foods are the smart option. Therefore, choosing organic is the right choice for personal and environmental health. You should always avoid food that is high in pesticides. The best place to start organic is with your veggies. Non-organic veggies that are high in pesticides have a lot of negative effects over our bodies so it’s better to consume your veggies organic.
Here are our top reasons to choose only organic foods:
Organic Food Is Often Fresher
Organic food doesn’t contain preservatives that make it last longer. It is often produced on smaller farms near where it is sold. It often has more beneficial nutrients, such as antioxidants, than their conventionally-grown counterparts and people with allergies to foods, chemicals, or preservatives often find their symptoms lessen or go away when they eat only organic foods.
Organic Food Is GMO-Free
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) or genetically engineered (GE) foods are plants whose DNA has been altered in ways that cannot occur in nature or in traditional crossbreeding, most commonly in order to be resistant to pesticides or produce an insecticide. Therefore, you should avoid GMO foods.
Eat Organic Meat
Organically raised animals are NOT given antibiotics, growth hormones, or fed animal byproducts. Feeding livestock animal byproducts increases the risk of mad cow disease (BSE) and the use of antibiotics can create antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. Organically-raised animals and pasture raised are given more space to move around and access to the outdoors, which also help to keep them healthy.
Organic Farming Is Better for the Environment
Organic farming practices reduce pollution, conserve water, reduce soil erosion, increase soil fertility, and use less energy. Therefore, farming without pesticides is also better for nearby birds and animals as well as people who live close to farms.
Organic Foods Are Often More Nutrient Rich
Organic foods get their nutrients straight from healthy, rich, organic dirt. If the dirt is healthy then there should be no need for fertilizers. Non-organic crops get their nutrients from synthetic fertilizers made from fossil fuels. Years of not replenishing the soil with organic matter forces farmers to add synthetic fertilizers. This leads to nutrient deficient crops grown from the same thing that fuels our cars.
As a rule of life always prefer natural and organic food. Stay away from processed and non organic foods for a better and healthier life.