Environmental+Concerns

=How is 'Organic Farming' related to environmental concerns? = = = **Some farms convert to organic farming because they use fewer chemicals and it's less harmful to the soil. Organic farmers are encouraged to go organic to improve soil fertility and rotate crops to naturally increase crop yields and disease resistance. If a farmer has used pesticides, chemicals and herbicides on his fields for a very long time then the pests can become resistant to the chemicals. That means that the farmer has to use stronger and stronger chemicals to kill the pests. This leads to more of those harmful chemicals in our food and our environment. Research has shown that cancer is now the number 1 killer in the US. Could this be related to all the poisons in our food?

An organic farm system will continually sustain itself. You don't need to keep adding more and more fertilizer. It is a natural cycle. The only draw back is that you have to wait three years to sell your crop as organic because that's how long it takes to get all the chemicals out of the soil. ** The same rules are also true for [|organic livestock]. Animals cannot be fed non-organic feed or administered any type of drug past a certain age. That means that they may not be injected with hormones or antibiotics. Organic farmers advertise their produce as a healthy alternative to conventionally grown foods. There has been a growing interest by consumers to buy organic. Unfortunately organic food is more expensive than conventional. **
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 *  [|Our environment] has been negatively impacted by the conventional method o ** **f g ** **rowing crops. If it takes a farm three years to get rid of all the poisons in the soil, how long will it take for a person to rid his body of all the chemicals it has ingested over the years? I think all these farmers of conventional farming know that there's a difference and that their crop may be harmful to the consumer. **