Organic Food Production And Consumption Offer Many Advantages And Benefits

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Organic Food Production And Consumption Offer Many Advantages And Benefits

There are numerous advantages and benefits associated with organic food production and consumption for people, animals and the environment.

This article, which I first wrote and published on another website in 2008, discusses some of these benefits and advantages.


Advantages of Organic Food Production & Consumption

Why eat organic food? Is organic food better?

Yes, there are many advantages of organic food production and consumption. Organic farming is the way to go, because it is in harmony with nature and its methods. In general, organically grown produce meet very high safety and cleanliness standards.


No use of harmful chemicals

Chemical fertilizers and pesticides are used extensively in commercial farming. Hundreds of different pesticides, amounting to hundreds of millions of pounds, are used every year. In addition, chemicals are also used to speed up growth and hasten ripening. These chemicals are used to improve productivity and yield (and thus profits). In part, this is done to meet the large demand for food worldwide.

One criticism of organic farming methods is that it would not be able to feed the entire world’s population, due to its lower yields when compared to modern conventional farming methods.

However, a study in 2007, the “Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems”, which compiled research from 293 different studies in order to compare the efficiency of the two methods of farming, states that “organic methods could produce enough food on a global per capita basis to sustain the current human population, and potentially an even larger population, without increasing the agricultural land base”.

If the study is indeed correct, then the advantages of organic food consumption would become two-fold – better quality food, without compromising on the quantity produced.

Well, with the growing world population, and rising food prices, this debate is likely to rage on for years to come.

If you are thinking of how we can better supply food to all people on Earth, read about the advantages of the consumption of a vegetarian diet. If we can combine those benefits with the organic food advantages, both in its production and consumption, then the positive effects would be greatly magnified.

Back to the topic of chemical pesticides – worse, as pests become more immune to the various chemical pesticides, farmers begin to use more chemicals of higher potency in an attempt to kill them. These chemicals are ending up on our dinner tables.

These harmful chemicals kill off many organisms and animals in the wild, significantly affecting natural ecosystems and their biodiversity.

They also pollute and contaminate vital clean water supplies worldwide.

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