Nutrition is a wonderful playground for people who want to stay healthy. We need food to live, yet can be poisoned by eating the wrong food. Learning from others to know which foods are safe and which are dangerous is essential for our health. We make food choices everyday and are one of the few things we can control as individuals. The question is can we improve our health by consuming organic food?
In the article “The Pros and Cons of Organic Food” by Mandy Ferreyra claims that organic food is made without synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, radiation, preservatives, genetic engineering. Ferreyra states that in order to be certified USDA organic, the product has to contain at least 95 percent organic ingredients. One of the main reasons …show more content…
The author states that for many shoppers “organic” is synonymous with “pesticide-free” but products can contain commercial pesticides and still be leveled organic.According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly 20 percent of organic lettuce tests positive for pesticides, Organic labeling laws allows naturally occurring chemicals to be applied to crops which comes from a soil bacterium, although the EPA considers the substance slightly toxic. Are these naturally occurring pesticides safer than synthetic? According to Jeff Gillman, a professor of nursery management at the university of Minnesota and organic practice expert, it depends on the amount …show more content…
Group discusses that agribusiness is all about profits, not our health. It’s gotten so bad that is becoming difficult to even call the stuff that agribusiness produces food. Group outlines that organic food is better than conventional food. Organic food is free of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) GM foods, are a horrible mutation of real food. Animal genes are applied into plants, and plants genes into animals, something that cannot happen in nature. A study showed that organic fruit and veggies contain 27 % more vitamin c, 21.1 % more iron 13.6 % more magnesium 13.6 % more phosphorus, and 18% more polyphenols. Organic food is less fatty, and the fats are healthier. The only US beef free of the fatal prion brain disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakod is organic. Pesticides are poison. The function is to poison things. Food that’s grown with the use of pesticides and herbicides are, therefore, poisonous. Conventional meat is loaded with antibiotics and other
In the article “The Pros and Cons of Organic Food” by Mandy Ferreyra claims that organic food is made without synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, radiation, preservatives, genetic engineering. Ferreyra states that in order to be certified USDA organic, the product has to contain at least 95 percent organic ingredients. One of the main reasons …show more content…
The author states that for many shoppers “organic” is synonymous with “pesticide-free” but products can contain commercial pesticides and still be leveled organic.According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly 20 percent of organic lettuce tests positive for pesticides, Organic labeling laws allows naturally occurring chemicals to be applied to crops which comes from a soil bacterium, although the EPA considers the substance slightly toxic. Are these naturally occurring pesticides safer than synthetic? According to Jeff Gillman, a professor of nursery management at the university of Minnesota and organic practice expert, it depends on the amount …show more content…
Group discusses that agribusiness is all about profits, not our health. It’s gotten so bad that is becoming difficult to even call the stuff that agribusiness produces food. Group outlines that organic food is better than conventional food. Organic food is free of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) GM foods, are a horrible mutation of real food. Animal genes are applied into plants, and plants genes into animals, something that cannot happen in nature. A study showed that organic fruit and veggies contain 27 % more vitamin c, 21.1 % more iron 13.6 % more magnesium 13.6 % more phosphorus, and 18% more polyphenols. Organic food is less fatty, and the fats are healthier. The only US beef free of the fatal prion brain disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakod is organic. Pesticides are poison. The function is to poison things. Food that’s grown with the use of pesticides and herbicides are, therefore, poisonous. Conventional meat is loaded with antibiotics and other