Organic Food Pros And Cons

Every day all around the world, people have the option to choose between purchasing organic foods or processed foods. More often than not we choose the processed foods because they are typically cheaper, quicker, and let us be honest, tastier. But as consumers, we are frequently tricked into thinking that the foods we buy are good for our health and that they provide us with the essential vitamins and nutrients we need. After reading articles from various doctors and nutritionists all around the world, I can confidently state that I have an in depth understanding of the disadvantages to eating highly processed foods as well as the advantages of eating organic foods. I am currently making my best efforts to achieve clean eating and am experiencing the benefits first-hand. What we as consumers need to understand is that processed foods do more harm than good to our bodies. Research proves that cutting out highly processed foods like fast foods and imitation foods, lead to personal health benefits such as having a stronger immune system, clearer skin, and less weight gain. Eliminating these highly processed foods from our diets will help to improve our health so we can be the best versions of ourselves.

A wide variety of reliable and peer reviewed studies performed by other researchers were included in this evaluation, as well as several of these researchers’ own studies, providing a stronger basis for the results. These studies varied on what particular aspects of organic foods or health benefits were being observed (quality of meat, eczema, etc.) as well as the demographics observed (pregnant women, nonpregnant adults, children), an approach which offers a broad view of the topic. Out of all the qualities and benefits of organic foods observed in these studies, only less exposure to pesticide residue and antibiotic resistant bacteria were statistically significant. The quality of meats were not remarkably different; similar rates of contamination due to Salmonella and Campylobacter suggested similar quality. Furthermore, unfavorable aspects of organic food production were also mentioned by several of the studies included in the evaluation. These ranged from increased amount of E. coli in organic fertilizer and actual produce to risk of Campylobacter infection due to winter consumption of organic meat (Smith-Spangler et al, 2012). The results of these studies indicate that health benefits of organic foods are not remarkably significant, an implication that is imperative as

Using the Mayo Clinic as a reference, I have developed the following opinion on organic foods that takes into account the financial aspects as well as the health ramifications of eating or not eating organic foods.

The author describes a global food revolution that began years ago from New York and Paris to London and Toronto. Consumers are becoming aware of the food they are purchasing at their local grocery store and realizing the grocery store is just a facade. Many small time organic farms started disappearing because of the mass producing large scale industrial farms which became possible after the industrial revolution. Large scale industrial farms are producing food in large quantities with low quality while polluting the earth and harming consumers because they are focused on one thing: profit. It makes it difficult for grocery stores to say no to these industrial farms just because of how cheap and convenient their product is. It also allows the grocery stores to supply produce year-round that normally would not be in season in a specific area. The sustainable factors and health of the consumers and the planet were of no concern when it came to higher produce yields and lower costs for both the conventional industrial farms and grocery stores. In 1996, industrial farms introduced genetically modified crops to increase yields and make more profit. Since then, more than 70% of foods produced contain genetically altered ingredients which has led to consumers being more prone to illnesses like cancer, diabetes, and obesity. This idea from Food and the City makes me furious because there are so many processed foods today that are hard to get away from. Mass industrial farms and manufacturers have found ways to extend food’s shelf life and alter the basic ingredients that would normally be considered healthy. With all of the additives, who knows what the food actually is and the harm it could do to your

After hearing the increased stereotypes about obesity in the United States, food has become a major issue. Almost 90% of the food that we consume is unhealthy and full of chemicals. Now that only a few people are aware of this, they are switching to organic food which does not contain any of these harmful and unhealthy substances. Organic food is simply the food that is not grown with the help of harmful pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and growth hormones. Be it acted by the 9th grade House of Representatives of Wayzata High School that organic food should be promoted and given to all of the people living in the United States regardless of their income. This is because they are healthier and can prevent cancer and obesity, help our local economy, and can help in the betterment of our environment and biodiversity.

Mitchum, Michelle is an American journalist and author, she writes, reports for news channels and a filmmaker. She states in Organic food, that for the past two decades the consumption of organic food has radically changed, by twenty-five billion dollars from 1996 to 2016. This accumulative grow is a result of people briefs' that organic food free pesticides, chemical and grown in good arable, are healthier form nutrition and health wise than controversially grown food. The subject separates like deadly disease and brings attention to competent health authorities and forced development, processing of conventionally grown foods to be aware of their next move, then the public starts questioning themselves the effect of consuming food that's been grown in an increasing profit method. There are enough researches to prove

Commentary 1: high prices of organic food are an obstacle for the improvement of people’s health.

The subsistence strategy of Industrialism has changed the entire landscape of the way Americans eat food. As a result of industrialism there is now a surplus of food. This has contributed to alarmingly high rates of obesity and with the “recent increases in food prices and food safety scares have resulted in popular discourse extolling the virtues of local food” (Janssen 2010). In an effort to not eat food ridden with toxins many consumers turn to locally grown food. Mainly their goal is not to eat food with “extensive herbicide and pesticide use by intensive conventional agriculture” (Andreatta 2000). This is because extensive amounts are dangerous when consumed. As there is increasing popularity in eating local and organic food, this results

After watching the movie, Food Inc, my beliefs have only strengthened regarding the importance of having a healthy food system. Throughout the film, acts such as retaining animals in bleak living domains, food engineering, and forcing feeding animals are constant. As a result of these operations, the food we consume from factory farms becomes contaminated, putting ourselves at risk of disease. However, there are countless ways to steer ourselves away from this hazard. The simplest way to start off is locally, right here in Boulder, by requesting/buying organic foods at the grocery stores or local farms. Having such system matters because It stresses and reinforces the ideal of trust between consumer and manufacturer. Thereby making a system

The way that Modern Agriculture produces our food involves our health because many of the things we eat. Chicken, meats, vegetables and fruits all contain GMOs and other substances that may be bad for us. In the past years food con-tamination has increased, causing illnesses and even deaths. Most of the food that is found in markets as well as in fast food restaurants contain lots of calories and lots of unhealthy ingredi-ents, for example, corn, high fructose, corn syrup, sugar and so on. However, the Big Agriculture hides these ingredients from us from using headlines like "healthy, nutritional, no artificial flavors and whole grains" to name a few, to persuade us on buying these

To eat healthy people need to go get fresh healthy clean food, it could be either from the corporations or farmers. In most of the case the foods from farmers are more trustable than corporations’. However, now a day millions of people in this country or billions of people in the world have to eat, so foods cannot be produced from few farmers; the number of farmers are decreasing. As it is, the big food companies are necessary to modern world. By industrialized food production, billions of people in the world can eat now, off course most of the populations cannot eat that healthy, still and because of that, the industrialized food productions, big food companies are necessary, unless

In recent years, many people don’t go more than a few days without hearing about organic foods in one way or another, whether it be through the media, friends or the numerous labels at the grocery store. For me, whenever someone brings up organic foods, they always put them on a pedestal of health caused by people’s recent disgust with the industrialized way we produce foods, which, to be fair, is not unfounded. I had assumed it was a bunch of gibberish, however, the data suggests a more ambiguous answer.

Nowadays children in the U.S. rely too much on fast food and conventional foods which contribute to higher rates of childhood obesity and related health issues. Whether organic food is healthier than non-organic food, has long been a subject for debate. In the TED talk, “what’s wrong with our food system,” the speaker, Birke Baehr is successful in persuading the audience to make healthy food choices, by using emotional, logical and ethical appeals. However, the TED talk could have been more appealing if Baehr added counter arguments, details, facts and statistics regarding the increasing rate of diseases caused by industrialized food.

Eating clean is very important topic for everyone. Organic is the way Farmers grow and produce products such as fruits vegetables dairy products meats and grains. Organic foods are very common in stores and homes in the US. What is organic food, pros of organic foods, cons of organic foods, standards of organic, and the history.

(2017). 14 Meaningful Advantages and Disadvantages of Organic Food. [online] Available at: https://connectusfund.org/14-meaningful-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-organic-food [Accessed 1 Nov. 2017].