Organic Promoter

Why Go Organic?

You would think that if a person wanted to "go organic" it would be a relatively easy thing to do. I mean, look at the advertisements on T.V. and in all the glossy magazines. You have all manner of Natural This, Lite That, and "healthy" and "good for you" products on the market.

So what's the big deal, huh? Well, like most things in the real world today, you just have to use a little common sense about what you are doing. Unfortunately, labels of this type do not mean Organic.

An Organic product is one that contains NO unnatural substance added at either the growing or manufacturing stages. No hormones. No antibiotics. No pesticides. No toxic chemicals. Unless a product is labeled "Certified Organic", it was probably grown and/or prepared with chemical substances including pesticides, fertilizers, and various additives to embellish the color, taste, or shelf-life.

In fact, most of our fruits and vegetables have been coated with toxic chemicals. Most of our store-bought meat and milk comes from animals fed synthetic hormones or grain that is covered in said toxic chemicals.

Even our new furniture, treated wood building materials and "wrinkle-free" sheets and textiles are routinely coated with, you guessed it, more of those toxic chemicals, chemicals that continue to "outgas" toxic fumes long after they are brought into our homes.

The only logical result is a lot of human bodies filled with...uh-oh, there is that phrase again... toxic chemicals. And now, as if that weren't enough, we may be ingesting genetically engineered organisms, with no idea how they will affect our ecosystems, our communities, our bodies, or our offspring.

A young person might at this point be asking, "If traditional manufacturing and farming methods are so bad for you, why have they been tolerated for so long?" The only answer for that is a combination of ignorance and greed. Mostly, plain old run-of-the-mill greed.

Giving the Chemists and Scientists the benefit of doubt, maybe when pesticides, insecticides, growth hormones, etc. were first being developed, no one knew everything they should have known about their use. The common boll weevil literally destroyed the cotton farmers in Alabama before scientists learned how to control them with pesticides.

But the time for ignorance is gone. There are so many forms of cancer now that you need a whole medical library just for that. And the number of people who have been touched in some way by this evil is enormous, not even counting the number of cases of heart disease, asthma, allergic reactions and birth defects caused by foreign substances in our bodies.

How can a responsible, caring Corporate community continue to use these same production methods that have been proven, time and again, to be the cause of such wide-spread death and destruction?

And how can we, as a people, continue to follow old consumer habits, like sheep following each other over a cliff-side, when we know there are alternatives out there... we just have to look for them.