1. Protect your health - You really don't want to ingest hormones, pesticides and other chemicals, do you? Worse, you dont want your children to be eating those toxic cancer causing chemicals. One study showed that 23.4 per cent of farms with caged hens tested positive for salmonella compared to 4.4 per cent in organic flocks and 6.5 per cent in free-range flocks. See the study at http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_9990.cfm
2. Protect soil - In industrial farming, soil structure is not given much thought, leading to depletion of nutrients and erosion. If the soil is not handled in a sustainable way, it eventually stops giving back and you can't use it any more.
3. Protect water - Fertilizers and pesticides used in industrial farming inevitably make their way into ground water and other water bodies.
4. Reduce Energy - Organic farming uses much less of petroleum than industrial farming since it relies on manual cultivation methods.
5. Protect Farmers and Farm Workers - Farmers that do not own farms not only suffer from ailments brought on by inhalation/ingestion of chemicals found in fertilizers and pesticides, they are also at the financial mercy of corporations. With reduced land ownership, economic disparities between the haves and have-nots increases.
6. Organic Tastes Better - Try it, and know the difference!
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