Organic Food

Organic Food

Organic Food
Should the cost of organic food keep people away from a healthier life style? Of course not. Health is important to all human beings. Eating chemically modified foods or pesticide-rich foods increases the likelihood of developing anxiety behavior, reproductive disorders, and even cancer (Fromartz 1). On the other hand, organically grown food is virtually pesticide-free, and it is farmed without hormones, artificial fertilizers, and insecticides. The cost of organic food is currently high, but if people were to think of it as a simple investment in their health, there would not be such a big dilemma about it. Since the rise of both genetically engineered foods and chemically altered, people tend to pay less attention to what they put in their mouths. No one seems to believe that all of the chemically engineered food will eventually harm their health. Ever since 1989, people frequently have reported that they have had intense pains and disorders causing them to lose their jobs and families to the FDA who later say that they have no such reports on file. According to William Crist, “in 2001, FDA FOI staff said that the information requested either ‘was lost’ or ‘could not be found…” (qtd. In Smith 121). Despite the expenses, organically grown food is a viable alternative to the conventional and genetically modified farming methods.
Conventional farming is harmful to the environment and to people’s health. Fertilizers are compounds put into soil to help the growth of plants. The two most common fertilizers are organic and non-organic. The non-organic fertilizers have chemicals and minerals that are harmful to the environment. Bill Ganzel acknowledges that, “The postwar development of irrigation both supported and demanded the development of artificial fertilizer, and vise versa” (1). Ganzel points out that before the 1940’s, farmers would grow their crops the natural fertility of the land (1). Farmers found that “Natural sources of...