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Jacob Gaffney  in Organic, Health

InterWined.com is a big supporter of Organic foods.

Any fruit or veg that has to fight for it’s own life against pests and disease will be stronger for it. When humans eat these foods (not strong enough to survive us!), we absorb greater amounts of the same nutrients and antioxidants that kept the plants so strong.

While Organic wines, available at superior shops such as Organico, are not more expensive than regular wines, Organic foods are. Now, a recent study from the University of Michigan found that organically grown crops can generate three times as much food, when compared to conventional farming on a similar sized plot of land. Great, feed the world, but why are consumers footing a larger bill then?

From the file:

Organic farming is important because conventional agriculture — which involves high-yielding plants, mechanized tillage, synthetic fertilizers and biocides — is so detrimental to the environment, Perfecto said. For instance, fertilizer runoff from conventional agriculture is the chief culprit in creating dead zones — low oxygen areas where marine life cannot survive. Proponents of organic farming argue that conventional farming also causes soil erosion, greenhouse gas emission, increased pest resistance and loss of biodiversity.

For their analysis, researchers defined the term organic as: practices referred to as sustainable or ecological; that utilize non-synthetic nutrient cycling processes; that exclude or rarely use synthetic pesticides; and sustain or regenerate the soil quality.

Perfecto said the idea that people would go hungry if farming went organic is “ridiculous.”

“Corporate interest in agriculture and the way agriculture research has been conducted in land grant institutions, with a lot of influence by the chemical companies and pesticide companies as well as fertilizer companies—all have been playing an important role in convincing the public that you need to have these inputs to produce food,” she said.

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