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The use of modern food products raises great doubts. Chemical fertilizers, genetic engineering achievements, advanced processing technologies and other tricks allow you to get the maximum production with minimum costs. At the same time, its composition is not influenced in the best way. High-speed ways of growing in unnatural conditions respond to depletion of provisions with nutrients and vitamins. Commercial appearance and protection from pests - merit of chemical fertilizers, growth hormones and antibiotics. These foreign substances get into the food, and with it into the human body.
All would be nothing, but they are suspected of the ability to cause allergies, digestive problems, premature aging and even cancer. In addition, food received by inorganic methods is considered to be the culprit of obesity. Like, it does not have enough nutrients, so for a feeling of satiety you will have to eat a double portion.
The situation of peculiarities of natural organic products is aggravated by hypodynamia and problems with ecology. Organic products on this background look like a panacea for all ills. After all, everything that later has the right to be called "organic" is grown in ecologically clean areas, thanks to the peculiarities of natural organic products. Animals that go to slaughter or are used for the production of dairy products are fed only with organic food. And no growth enhancers! Organic fertilizer is only natural substances, for example, compost and manure. In the production it is forbidden to use pesticides, chemical processing methods, synthetic ingredients, the achievements of genetic engineering. With pests are struggling in non-standard ways: for example, in one area, plant different plants.
Such an assortment allegedly confuses voracious insects, which later can not decide what they prefer, and retire. So the product remains unharmed, preserves its nutritional composition and does not need to be irrigated with pesticides. These ways of growing justify themselves: at the output the consumer receives vegetables, fruits, without chemicals and nitrates. Moreover, French researchers say that, in comparison with conventional, organic products are 40% richer in vitamins and trace elements; antioxidants (substances responsible for the youth of cells) in them more at 5096. Meat and dairy products with the label "organic" contain less saturated fats and more useful fatty acids and protein.
It turns out that food in the style of organic very well fits into the formula "We are what we eat".
And is it necessary?
However, organic food has not only fans, but also opponents. There have been repeated statements in the press that the role of organic substances in maintaining health and good form is highly exaggerated. Like, obesity, metabolic disorders and numerous health problems are not caused by preservatives and pesticides in food. The main reason is the excessive love of contemporaries for fast food and sweets, the stubborn ignoring of any movement, except from the refrigerator to the TV and back.
Some argue that organic is dangerous to health. They argue that the organic type of production prohibits the use of preservatives and chemical fertilizers, as well as feed animals with antibiotics and antihelminthic drugs, which increases the risk of infection with helminths and intestinal infection.
Another stone in the organic garden is the statement that this is a very large and profitable business. After all, the price of products marked organic exceeds the cost of inorganic analogues by two or three times. The ecofermers themselves justify themselves: maintaining a subsistence economy, abandoning chemical methods of processing and using the same fertilizers, requires much greater expenditure and connection of manual labor. But even opponents of organic drink on the fact that this way of growing is unethical and moreover - it is not environmentally friendly.
It does not give the opportunity to feed the whole of humanity because of low yields, but it turns out to be much more expensive - not only in terms of manual labor, but also natural resources. Like, to use exclusively natural fertilizers, it is necessary to collect the remains of all living things (plants, animals, even people), to process and return to soil - and this will still not be enough compared to the features of natural organic products. The information that organic pesticides are used, but not modern, but "primitive", for example, sulfur and copper, is also leaping. And they are toxic - harmful to both human and soil.
However, these worries are not too worrisome for eco-farmers. Supermarkets, restaurants and cafes that offer exceptionally eco-friendly food and drinks, appear as mushrooms after the rain and enjoy incredible popularity. Adepts of the organic flow and themselves are happy to connect to the growing of anything, but certainly environmentally friendly. Even celebrities buy farms and weave the beds with their own hands.
Ecological movement in our country makes only the first timid steps. Although there are already shops offering natural products; bars where you can drink organic tea. In addition, it is quite possible to establish contact with eco-farms, which still exist in our country, and agree on direct deliveries.
Nutrition experts are also supportive of organic products: According to them, they have less chemistry, respectively, they are much more useful than inorganic food.