Shouldn’t Everyone Be Eating Natural And Organic Food?

How has natural and organic food become the unconventional and uncommon choice? Shouldn’t it be the norm for everyone?

This article, which I first wrote and published on another website in 2008, explores this issue.

About Natural and Organic Food – some thoughts

I was once teased about my obsession with natural and organic food products. I got a little agitated and remarked that, by right, all food, by default, should be produced using organic farming and production methods.

It doesn’t use harmful chemicals. It produces healthful and nutritious food. It doesn’t pollute the environment and ecosystems. It doesn’t harm farm workers. It doesn’t house animals in cramped, filthy and disease-promoting conditions. It doesn’t produce food which contains chemicals that poison our bodies. It doesn’t pollute our water supplies. It doesn’t deplete our lands and cause soil erosion. It has much higher sustainability in the long run, for future generations.

Doesn’t it make sense that organic farming and food production should be the conventional way of doing things, the norm? Shouldn’t natural and organic food be the sustenance for the vast majority of people?

In my mind, food, by default, should all be organically grown and produced, and food products which are not organic should be labeled “not organic”, or “contains artificial chemicals”, or “unnatural”, or “raised with use of growth hormones“, or “grown using chemical fertilizers and pesticides”, or “genetically modified”, etc. The list goes on – you get the drift.

But, no – as with many other things on this planet, things are upside down. In the world today, food is by default harmful, unless it is stated that they are “organic”, i.e. that they are healthful natural and organic foods. How strange.

Eating natural and organic food is good for us, and makes perfect sense

Healthy living must be a holistic thing. And one’s dietary habits form a significant part, if not the foundation, of a health-promoting lifestyle. And, really, the healthiest food you can get is natural and organic food.

Eating organic food makes perfect sense to me. After all, we wouldn’t want to compromise on the quality of food we give to our pets, or the quality of engine oil we use in our cars, or the quality of furniture polish we use on our new living room set; so why would we want to give substandard food to our bodies, which are unarguably the most critical and irreplaceable physical resource we are given in this life?

Our bodies are organic in nature, and they are simply not adapted or suitable for taking in synthetic chemicals of all kinds. Whether you believe 100% in creationism – that God created people out of nothing overnight, or 100% in evolution – that humans evolved from one-cell organisms, or something in between, either way, our bodies do not like artificial food and chemicals!

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