Organic foods and products are the fastest growing items in America's grocery carts. Thirty million households, comprising 75 million people, are now buying organic foods, clothing, body care, supplements, pet food, and other products on a regular basis. Fifty-six percent of U.S. consumers say they prefer organic foods.
Here are 10 reasons why you should buy organic foods and products:
1. Organic foods are produced without the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).
2. Organic foods are safe and pure.
3. Organic foods and farming are climate-friendly.
4. Organic food certification prohibits nuclear irradiation.
5. Consumers worry about rampant e-coli, salmonella, campylobacter, Methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and fecal contamination in animal products coming out of the
nation's inhumane and filthy slaughterhouses.
6. Consumers are concerned about billions of pounds of toxic municipal sewage sludge dumped
as "fertilizer" on 140,000 of America's chemical farms.
7. Consumers worry about the routine practice of grinding up slaughterhouse waste and feeding
this offal and blood back to other animals, a practice that has given rise to a form of human
mad-cow disease called CJD, often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease. Animals on organic
farms cannot be fed slaughterhouse waste, manure, or blood - daily rations on America's
factory farms.
8. Consumers care about the humane treatment of animals.
9. Consumers are concerned about purchasing foods with high nutritional value.
10. Consumers care about preserving America's family farms, world hunger, and the plight of
the world's two billion small farmers.
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