Why Choose Organic Food?
To eat organic food is simple common sense.
Non-organic food is a food product that has been contaminated,
either with a cocktail of insecticides and pesticides or been
genetically modified with the sole aim of generating more
profit, whatever the excuse or reason they offer you. Perhaps
I'm being a little harsh... farming is a business and it is
a very competitive business with not just independant farmers
trying to generate a greater market share, but governments
competing with governments for a greater share of the world
market. The pressure on farming globally is immense and the
pressure leads to independant farmers, retail supermarkets
and governments to betray the animals best interests, our
best interests and the best interests of the planet upon which
life as we know it depends. Is the pursuit of profit so important
that we can stand by and watch as humanities greed rather
than need gambles with our very survival. I, like you, feel
powerless in the face of the overwhelming pressure of worldwide
market forces...
So first, before we tackle the big issue of
the planet, let us consider our own bodies. Here we do have
the power to makes choices. We do have the power to make a
difference. We do have the power to make a stand and do what
we all know is the right thing to do. It is important we begin
by respecting our own bodies and saying NO to any food contaminated
by an insecticide. Insecticides cannot be good for us. To
me that is simple common sense, but it is also common sense
that they cannot be good for the planet Earth and I'll take
a stab in the dark here and state that they cannot be good
for any bird or creature that relies on those insects as a
food source.
But back to our own health. Let's be selfish
and say we don't give a damn about the birds and the bees
and the planet, all that can go to rot for all we care. But
now let us point a finger at ourselves and say that? Let's
us imagine for a second what an insecticide might do to our
body. Take a single cell from your body and spray it with
an insecticide. What to you think is going to happen to that
cell? Personally I assume the cell will die, which is why
I refuse to eat food that has been sprayed with the stuff.
Often the food will have absorbed the chemicals used to protect
it so when you eat that food you are eating those chemicals
as well.
Okay, so what about ( GM ) genetically modified
food? Well, in my view what is happening here is criminal
arrogance. Our scientists abusing the delicate balance of
life on the planet Earth in an experiment, and let us not
kid ourselves, this is a very dangerous experiment. The balance
of life as we know it on Earth is governed by complex cycles
of co-dependancy in very many forms, we are discovering and
understanding more and more symbionic relationships between
very diverse species all the time. More often than not we
discover these simple symbionic relationships are critical
to the survival of one or both or all of the species involved
in that relationship. Often we then discover the importance
of that particular species to the local ecology and often
that impotance reaching to an ever wider environment. We are
still struggling to understand the complexity of these often
simple relationships and one such relationship we are still
struggling to understand is man's critically important relationship
to our planet Earth. What we do know is that in this relationship
man is wholly dependant on the life cycle and continued existence
of the planet. These scientists are using the planet and tampering
with nature and experimenting on life forms with the sole
aim of greater profit which will give them greater power.
We simply must not let them continue for all our sakes...
They know not what they do. They simply don't understand...
Tim Rees
