Better Health With Organic Food

Organic Food – Myths Realities And Nonsense To Know About

When your college-age son reminds you that your supermarket foods are “dead” and that you’re simply supporting government-subsidized monoculture farming practices, what do you do? Is the answer “natural and organic food”…but what does this mean, and what would you get if you convert to it?

When does a difference matter? Who hasn’t been intrigued during a shopping visit when you read one packet where “free range chickens” have been “sustainably farmed”, while the other packet simply shows the price and pound details for what must be the “alternative chicken” produced by industrial farming and mass distribution means? How do you choose? Is one more “chicken” than the other?

The Wonderful World of Organic Food

Organic food has been around for many generations. The term organic, however, did not come about until the mid 1960’s. It is basically when no additives, preservatives, or pesticides are used in the food during growth or production.

The older generations grew such food when they had large gardens that fed the big families. In today’s society, however, growing a garden has become almost extinct. It has seen a revolution that has put fresh food back on the plates of people.

Organic Food History and Current Trends

Farming practices used before the 1900’s are classed as organic. It was only after this that added chemicals such as urea and DDT were brought into farming – previous to this, farmers didn’t have the knowledge and simply put, were happy enough with things as they were; as most of us today would be. After all, home grown food is often the nicest, most tasty food we put on our plates.

For some reason, during the 1960’s and 1970’s the concept of organic food became a separate entity to the ‘normal’ food we were then buying. Consumers had been effectively duped into believing that what they were buying, was food as nature intended, it not appreciating that the chemicals which were added during growth of the ‘normal stuff’ were what actually made the food abnormal in the first place.

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