Is organic food good for you?
We buy organic food almost all the time. Fortunately we have an organic farmshop almost on our doorstep, so it's dead easy and creates much fewer food miles. We're lucky!
I think that the arguments in favour of organic food are as follows:
it contains less (or no) pesticides, reducing the build-up in the body;
organic growing is more sustainable since there is no input of petro-chemical fertilisers and the natural fertility of the soil is maintained - some conventional farms run on little better than hydroponics. The argument that you cannot feed the world from organic farming is wrong - sooner or later we will have to, when the oil runs out;
organic farming protects biodiversity.
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