CONVENTIONAL
V/S ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
In livestock products, chemicals are applied in feeds,
control of intestinal worms, tick control, in injections and everywhere. So one
consumes them in milk, eggs, meat e.t c. Can our bodies be able cope with all
other pressures of life and still have the capacity to clean up the mass of
chemicals?
It is silently talked about, that if one goes to hospital
with liver and kidney problems, the doctor
should first know where the one comes from.If one happens to come from areas
with much horticultural and coffee and tea prodution, then the first
investigation should be agro-chemical poisoning.I have heard of a person who
worked in a coffee factory chemical store. One early morning, without any
signs, he just dropped dead.
Each year, millions and
millions of adults die from chemical poisoning worldwide.Children ar neither
safe.They get chemicals from breast milk.In agricultural parts of africa,
especially Kenya,vegetables are sprayed with cattle dip wash[acaricides]. Maize
is spinkled with chemicals at package.On quick delivery to the millers, is it
ever washed? So what happens when you eat your maize flour meal full of toxic
chemicals only dusted a week ago? Should we then struggle to look for causes of
throat cancer?
All is not lost however. SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE also widely
known as ORGANIC AGRICULTURE is the SOLUTION.
It is possible to produce chemical free healthy foods at very low costs as
compared to production of the same amounts of food in chemical production.
We however need enough thinkers to say, chemical agriculture is outdated. Conventional
agriculture ceased to be modern agriculture many years ago.But unfortunately,
many of us are still in the ideological and scientific wilderness. And as more
students graduate from conventional agriculture practices, they continue to
kill not only others, but kill themselves too through chemical poisoning.
WHY GO ORGANIC
Organic produce or products are those produced and processed
through a system that encourages natural biological processes on the farm,
allows farm animals to exhibit natural behavior and excludes the use of
synthetic pesticides, chemical fertilizers, antibiotics and genetically
modified organisms.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU
EAT
You can live a healthier
life by eating organic food.
EAT ORGANIC, BE
STRONG.
Organic foods are high in nutritional quality and quantity.
They are produced under a system that ensures healthy soils, resulting in crops
that are rich in diverse minerals, enzymes and macro and micro-nutrients.