WHY IS ORGANIC IMPORTANT?

The reasons are many! Organic foods don’t just promote better health in those who eat them, they also promote healthier soils, less-polluted environments, sustainable agriculture, and the list goes on. Truly, many benefits come from organic foods!

* Eating organic foods protects you and your children from chemical pesticides and fertilizers, as well as growth hormones and antibiotics (found in meats). Remember, pesticides are designed to kill living creatures...there must be some cumulative effect on humans when we eat them daily in our foods.

* Growing organic means healthier soil. The soil is where it all starts in organic farming. Organic crops are rotated because that replenishes necessary nutrients into the soil without having to chemically fertilize. Organic soils produce the healthiest, tastiest, most nutritious foods for us to eat.

* Growing organic means cleaner water. No chemical fertilizers and pesticides means no runoff into our streams, lakes, and aquifers.

* Eating the healthiest, tastiest, most nutritious foods certainly benefits us all! Better yet, your body will process these nutritious goodies, and will NOT have to expend precious energy processing the chemical fertilizers, pesticides, growth hormones, and antibiotics as well.

Remember, buying organic foods is a “vote with your dollar”; and not just for your own health, but also for the health of the environment. And that’s a benefit to everyone on the planet! Organic foods are, and will continue to be, a vital contributor to the overall health of all of us- even if you choose not to eat organic. They are a point of sanity in an otherwise conventionally thinking world.