Why Organic?
Natural Health Organic Farm is a member of CCOF (California Certified Organic Farmers)
There are a variety of health, environmental and ethical reasons why more and more consumers are turning to organic foods, which prohibit the use of genetic engineering, pesticides, irradiation, chemical fertilizers, hormones, animal drugs, and intensive confinement of farm animals.
Consumers are worried about pesticide and drug residues routinely found in Non-organic produce, meat, and dairy products. Consumer Reports found that 77 percent of non-organic produce items in the average supermarket contain pesticide residues.
A recent scientific study found high levels of organophosphate pesticide residues in the bodies of school-age children eating conventional food, whereas children consuming mainly organic food had low levels.
Studies show that organic produce contains more vitamins and important trace minerals.
On the environmental front, consumers are concerned about pollution of their drinking water and the nation's lakes and rivers by the 12 billion pounds of nitrate fertilizer and a billion pounds of toxic pesticides used by conventional, non-organic farmers every year.
A related concern is the routine use of toxic municipal sewage sludge as a fertilizer on conventional farms. Irradiation is being used on meats and an increasing number of plant foods because it kills most insects/bacteria, can increase shipping/storage life, and allows packers, processors and restaurants to avoid food poisoning lawsuits.
Irradiation harms the food because the high-energy irradiation blast breaks molecules and DNA, and creates free radicals that damage vitamins and damage or kill the living enzymes in fresh foods. Vegetarians who buy irradiated raw foods in order to eat them raw will receive a nutritionally inferior product. Also, new, untested chemicals and small amounts of carcinogens are created. There are no long-term human feeding studies, and only one small study on children which showed health effects.
Natural Health Organic Farm is also certified under the USDA's National Organic ProgramUSDA's National Organic Program and the Organic Foods Production Act are intended to assure consumers that the organic foods they purchase are produced, processed, and certified to be consistent with national organic standards.
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