Saturday, November 27, 2010

Going Organic to reap health benefits: Jia Yan

Going Organic to reap health benefits: Jia Yan
Personally i think having organic food is more preferred then conventional food. I believe that organic products are more healthier choice compared to conventional foods. This is because organic foods like organic butter do not contain pesticides and a strict rule to follow environmental standards to become certified, thus to be sold to public consumptions. In addition, organic farming employs compost to fertilize the soil and manure. As for Conventional products it is being produced by using chemical fertilizers to promote plant growth. I believe that nowadays, majority of the population would be choosing organic products due to healthier reason, but however i think there is a limitation, which is organic foods take a longer time to be produce and more expensive to be purchased given the strict guidelines to be sold to public. Making people to choose not only organic food but mostly conventional products as well.

I think that more conventional method of farming are to be used, one of the factor is to encourage crops growth using pesticide to conform the increasing world population which takes lesser time spend to harvest the crops. The problem right now is that we are not sure if conventional food such as Genetic Modified Food(GM) would cause long-term harmful effect on human body. Because Conventional food is produced by conventional farming which is done by, for example: Using chemical fertzilizers to promote growth, Giving animals antibiotics, growth hormones and medications to spur growth and to prevent diseases. On the other hand, the food chain in the animal population could change drastically, take for example, a genetic material(Bacterium Bacillus Thuringiensis) is being injected into corns to protect them from pests who eats it. Sciencist have found out that the corn pollen dispersed by the wind are deposited on other plants which are ingested by the non-target organisms that consume these plants. One of the non-target organisms is Monach Butterfly. They have found out that when these butterfly fed on corn pollen, it causes them to grow more slowly and suffered higher mortality than larvae reared on leaves dusted with untransformed corn pollen or on leaves without pollen. It is now a question that would these chemicals that we consume into our body cause any harm or long time effect we had yet to known?
Here is a video of how to differentiate between Organic and Conventional Food products.

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