Food is one of the most intimate things we do as people, which is why we should take special care in what we consume. Over 10,000 years ago civilizations began cultivating foods. They began gathering, planting and irrigating their own sustainable food systems. They believed in a huge variety of food and a balance with the Earth, food, and their bodies. Over the past century, industrialization has occurred in our food systems and, in turn, resulted in the loss of nutrition and local farming. Organic farming provides not only an alternative safe and healthy farming model, but a way to correct the flaws in our current system.
There are many benefits of organic foods and organic farming. Organic foods are free of harmful chemicals, artificial flavors, and preservatives. Conventional farmers use over 300 different pesticides to grow non-organic foods. The current process used in food production render little to no nutritional value left in the food, one is basically only paying......
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