During the last few decades there has been a change towards mechanization and homogenization of farming, which uses pesticides, additives, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers and mass-production techniques. All of this is clearly affecting everyone’s health, and new diseases are spreading rapidly among humans and animals (bird flu being a recent example).
The World Health Organization produces reports to show how the use of chemicals and other products on food, coupled with the manufacturing processes involved, are actually a threat to our health.
If you have space for a few pots or even a small piece of land, it is a wise decision to grow your own organic vegetable garden.
Here’s 7 motivating reasons to do this now:
- You will have no additives in your vegetables. Research by organic food associations has shown that additives in our food can cause heart diseases, osteoporosis, migraines and hyperactivity.
- There will be no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers used. These chemical products are applied to crops all the time, regardless of plagues or weather conditions, and affect the quality of the vegetables. Besides, pesticides are usually poisonous to humans.
- Your vegetables will not be genetically modified (GM). Antibiotics, drugs and hormones are used on vegetables to grow more volume and larger individual crops. One of the consequences of this practice are vegetables which look all the same and are usually tasteless. And we end up consuming the hormones that have been used on the vegetables, bringing with them potential health risks.
- Eating your own organic vegetables will be much healthier for you. They will not contain any of the products or chemicals named above, and they will be more natural than any you would find at the supermarket. Your health will not be at risk because nothing has been added to your vegetables.
- Your own organic vegetables will be very tasty! The use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, hormones and antibiotics make vegetables grow unnaturally and take the taste right out of them. With organic vegetables, your cooking will be enhanced as their flavor will come through.
- Organic farming is friendly to the environment. Because you won’t use pesticides or other equally harming products on your vegetables, you will not damage the soil or the air with the chemical components.
- When you grow your own organic vegetables you are contributing to both your own self-sustainability and the sustainability of the planet. Small communities have been founded where members exchange products that they grow naturally, thus contributing to creating a friendlier and better place for all of us.
In the end, eating organic products only means that we do not add anything else to them other than what they would naturally have. As you can guess, additives, fertilizers, pesticides and hormones are not part of naturally grown food. To better care for your health, grow your own organic vegetables -and a few pots and a bit of soil is truly all you need to be on your way! 😊
