Saturday, September 10, 2011

Three Facts About Organic Food

As a consumer, most easily way to recognize organic food ingredients is by reading the label. But the label 'organic' listed on the packaging sometimes makes us confused.

Not to mention there are some things that many misunderstood by consumers about organic food, maybe including yours. So you do not mistaken, find out three facts about organic foods:

Three Facts About Organic Food
1. Sources The local food ingredients are not the same as organic food

The local label only explained the location of livestock or not farm processing practices or scale. To find out more details you should ask if the farm
or practice of organic farming standards. For example antibiotics in animals, whether given fertility drugs or the use of other chemicals.

2. Organic processing still using chemicals

There is a long list of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, and other chemicals that have been approved for use on certified organic farms.

For example, pyrethrum, which is a pesticide commonly used in both livestock and agriculture. Basically the material has the same active ingredients such as permethrin
synthetic, conventional pesticides.

3. Consuming organic food is not always environmentally friendly

With more environmentally friendly reasons some people choose to be vegetarians and eat only organic foods. But this really depends on the conditions and methods applied to animal husbandry and agriculture. Actually you can still keep the environment by eating of meat in an amount not excessive.

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