Organic food
What makes an organic item organic and why should we buy it? Organic food is good food grown naturally, using and preserving the goodness of the land rather than relying on dangerous and toxic chemicals.
In organic farming, farmers use methods to ensure that their land has adequate time to replenish natural minerals and nutrients in the soil. Crop rotation for example, works on a season to season basis, where the farmer rotates different crops around different stretches of land. Because each type of fruit and vegetable grown depends on a specific mixture of soil nutrients, moving them around allows the soil to keep its overall nutrient levels up. This therefore eradicates the need for unnatural, man made substances being added to the soil.
The other main element of organic farming is the use of natural, not artificial, crop enhancement. This means...
- Severe restrictions of the use of artificial chemicals to aid plant growth, such as fertilisers or pesticides
- Reliance on the soil to provide crops with the nutrients a plant needs
- Not ‘rejecting’ items on the basis of their aesthetic look
- Humane treatment of animals
- Animals do not receive growth boosting drugs during rearing and are not cruelly over-fed.
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