Top Reasons for Organic Farming
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Organic farms grow healthier, safer, better tasting products. There are many reasons to switch to an organic, local diet.
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Reduces exposure to synthetic pesticides.
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Respects water resources
Soil building and eliminating pollutants and nitrogen leaching protects and conserves water sources.
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Builds healthy soil.
Responsible organic farming maintains and builds the soil rather than destroying it and leeching it’s nutrients as most commercial farming does.
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Reduces pollution.
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Creates healthier work environments for farmworkers.
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Producers are leaders in innovative research.
Largely at their own expense, organic farmers are committed to research about methods to reduce agricultures harmful impact on the environment so that we can continue to have quality farming for future generations.
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Protect children from the negative effects of synthetic pesticides
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Strives to protect biodiversity.
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Farmer work in harmony with nature.
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Keeps rural communities healthy and thriving.
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Inspire a sense of place and seasonality
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Preserve local crop varieties
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Organic farming is expanding
Non-food products experts said couldn’t be grown organically are.
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Decrease your intake of harmful and unnecessary hormones and antibiotics.
Viruses and bacteria have developed immunity to many antibiotics because they are given unnecessarily to livestock on a daily basis. There are also many negative effects of the hormones they are given to humans.
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Boosts the nutritional quality of the food.
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Reduces health risks.
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Cleaner factories for meat processing
Fewer bacteria and metal bits in food.
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Tastes better
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Products meet stricter standards.
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Steers clear of unknown risks of GMOs
Genetically modified organisms, in this case foods, were approved without a lot of research and some negative effects are now creeping up. Since GMOs aren’t labeled the only way to avoid them is to go organic.
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