A Great Resource For All Things Organic.

Taste may be a good reason to buy organic foods because they are usually sold closer to where they are grown and as a result they are more fresh. If you have a garden and eat your own vegetables you know what I'm talking about. There is a definite difference in taste. The garden vegetables taste so much better. It is also a belief that better taste means more nutrients and in turn is a lot better for us.

Another good reason is the fact that organic foods contain a lot less pesticide residue than commercially grown foods not to mention the herbicide and artificial fertilizers that are part of big corporate food growing.

Now just recently we're hearing that farmers will be allowed to use the human waste sludge that comes from sewage treatment plants. I don't know about anyone else but I certainly won't knowingly eat vegetables grown in human waste so I'll be paying a lot more attention to where my food is coming from in the immediate future.

Basically I think we should all just be more aware of what we're eating and where it comes from. Chemically, our bodies can only process certain amounts of foreign matter. The rest stays with us.

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Yahoo! News Search Results for organic
Yahoo! News Search Results for organic

USDA Panel Approves First Rules For Labeling Farmed Fish 'Organic' (Washingto...
19 Nov 2008 at 9:17pm
For the first time, a federal advisory board has approved criteria that clear the way for farmed fish to be labeled "organic," a move that pleased aquaculture producers even as it angered environmentalists and consumer advocates.
New organic restaurant in NYC (WABC-TV New York)
20 Nov 2008 at 12:49pm
A new restaurant in NYC is strictly organic.
Right By Nature organic grocery opens in Pittsburgh's Strip District (BizJour...
20 Nov 2008 at 9:56am
To commemorate the opening of his new natural food store, Bob Stone uses a stalk of organic broccoli as a flag to mark what may seem to many as the virgin territory between affordable and organic grocery shopping.
Season's first organic vegetables go on sale Saturday (The Monitor)
20 Nov 2008 at 9:41am
SAN JUAN ? The return of cool weather to subtropical South Texas brings with it the return of the area's only organic farmers market, said Barbara Storz, a Texas AgriLife Extension Service horticultural agent in Hidalgo County.
Help for farmers getting started in organic crops (Smyrna Clayton Sun Times)
20 Nov 2008 at 12:34pm
Cost-share assistance for organic certification, workshops on organic farming
Economy has little impact on organic food sales (Aurora News-Register)
20 Nov 2008 at 10:50am
While a recession-bound economy has families rethinking purchases -- from necessities to luxuries -- one industry that has seen little impact on its growth is organic food.
1st organic center to be launched in Davao (Sun Star)
20 Nov 2008 at 7:12am
TO FURTHER educate and train people in Davao City who may want to engage in organic farming and production, the Cash Lifestyle Network will launch the Organic Center on December 3.
Upper U.S. Midwest Organic Grain and Feedstuffs (Ag Report)
20 Nov 2008 at 7:46am
DES MOINES - Nov 20/08 - SNS -- Bi-weekly USDA report on organic grain and feedstuffs prices in the U.S. upper midwest.
Turf wars: New rules for organic dairies' cows (The Bismarck Tribune)
19 Nov 2008 at 11:28pm
MINNEAPOLIS - A long struggle over what kind of milk counts as organic is coming to a head.
New Project Targets Organic Poultry (Newswise)
19 Nov 2008 at 10:20pm
A team from several institutions led by University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture food and poultry scientists has been awarded a three-year grant for nearly $600,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Integrated Food Safety Initiative grant to do food safety research in natural and organic poultry.