People are waxing eloquent about organic produce all over the place. These foods have got an almost sacred impression in the grocery stores, with most stores literally putting them on a higher pedestal than other fruits and vegetables. So, while organic produce enjoys this higher position, the question that enters our minds is—do they really deserve to be kept right up there? Here are some answers.
First of all, one should know what organic produce is. These are foods—they could be fruits and vegetables or meats—that are produced in completely organic ways. While growing them, farmers avoid the use of anything synthetic such as chemical fertilizers and manures. They refrain from adding chemical-based pesticides, fungicides, germicides and insecticides to the farm and rely instead on biological ways of animal control.
Organic produce is not confined merely to the food industry. There are several nonfood crops that are being produced organically too. The best example is organic cotton. Cotton that is produced by current conventional methods is full of chemicals that might remain on the finished textile products and hence come in contact with the body of the person wearing them. The idea in producing organic cotton is to develop a completely natural and safe variety of cotton that can be used harmlessly.
If you get acquainted with the uses of all these kinds of organic produce, you will begin to understand that they deserve to be placed on a higher pedestal in comparison with other products. The main reason is that they are safe and biologically quite compatible. They are one with the environment. Nature has ordained our crops to be as natural as possible, but somewhere along the path we have veered from that direction and started adding chemicals to them. By producing crops organically, we are going back to being in harmony with nature, as much as we can.
There is also the big benefit that organic produce is much healthier. Chemicals have a nasty way of lingering for a long time and their effects begin to show slowly. People who have been exposed to chemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides for a long time get a lower immunity and may show developmental disorders. Certain skin ailments may occur and allergies can shoot up. In some people, it has been found that high doses of these chemicals can increase the risk of cancer even.
But, the most important thing is that by using organic produce, we are staying faithful to the environment we live in. The water remains purer and the soil remains purer as well. These products get naturally degraded in the environment when they are done with, which means they don’t add to the non-degrading debris which is becoming a growing concern for all of us. Also, since these products are completely natural, they don’t add to the atmospheric pollution in any way and do not release any toxic substances in the air.
So, organic produce has more benefits than one might think. It is great to have go back to nature and enjoy things in the manner nature originally wanted us to.