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ORGANIC FARMING VERSES CONVENTIONAL FARMING.




In today’s society, a lot of the product that we eat we don’t know how they are produce.

We live in a world where we are always on the go, either to our jobs where we’re trying

to meet some deadline or fulfilling some other commitments. We don’t stop to think and

analyze where the food that we put in our body come from. Most of the time we are

eating what are given to us by big cooperation who produces food on farms in ways that

are inhumane and are destroying our bodies and environment just to make a profit.

The two most common types of farming are organic and conventional farming. Organic

farming produce more healthy products than conventional farming.



Most organic foods are mostly produce by small family farmers who spend long

laborious hours caring for their farm in order to produce healthy food. for example, the

Salatin Family. IN 1961, William and Lucille Salatin purchase the most worn-out,

eroded, abused farm in the area near Staunton. Using nature as a pattern, they and their

children began the healing and innovation that now supports three generations .Today the

farm arguably represents America’s premier non-industrial food production oasis. The

Salatins planted trees, built huge compost piles, dug ponds, moved cows daily with

portable electric fencing, and invented portable sheltering systems to produce all their

animals on perennial prairie polycultures.

Families like the Saltatins are people we should thank for making organic farming healthy

for us today. In order for organic farm to produce healthy food they must fellow strict

gidelines. According to the organic consumer association, organic farmers are not

allowed to used “ antibiotics, synthetic pesticides herbicides, fertilizers, genetically

modified seeds or irradiated” .Organic food should be grown as naturally as possible, thus

making it healthy for us to consumed. According to the NY Times a pediatrician Dr .

Alan Danville wanted to see how healthy organic farm food was. He eat only organic for

three years. He choose years because it’s the time it took to be certified organic by the

D.O.A. Three years later, he says “he has more energy and wakes up earlier”. As a

pediatrician regularly expose to sick children, he was accustomed to several illnesses a

year. Now , he says, he is rarely ill. His urine is a brighter yellow, a sign that he is

ingesting more vitamins and nutrients. In order to be certified organic, farmers have to

keep their farm free ofprohibited substances for at least three years prior to harvest. Crops

grown on land in transition to organic during the first three years after switching from

conventional farming cannot be labeled as organic. Organic labeling laws make much

more easier to recognize organic food that comes from organic farms. The USDA said in

order recognize organic product look for the organic seal on raw, fresh products and

processed products that contain organic agricultural ingredients. Or it may appear on a

sign above an organic produce displayed .The seal may be printed in green and brown as

shown, in black and white outline on a transparent background. The organic fever is

spreading even the president and his wife are leading by example and planting a garden.

While the organic garden will provide food for the first family’s meals and formal

diners, its most important role, Mrs. Obama said, will be to educate children about

healthful, locally grown fruit and vegetables at a time when obesity and diabetes have

become a national concern.(nytimes).It’s time we all start living healthy life for

generations to come
Conventional farming describes any farming not dedicated to alternative methods.

Fundamentally, it is the kind of farming which dominated the 20th century and which

accounts for most farming today. In conventional farming, chemical plant protectants,

chemical fertilizers and intensive mass animal farming are common. Thousands of

animals are raise together in crowed conditions. Chicken stand in cages or indoor in large

cage packed so tightly together that each chicken gets a space about the size of a sheet of

paper .


Organic farming is better because it is grown without antibiotics, synthetic pesticides,

herbicides, fertilizers, genetically modified seeds, irradiation, or fertilizer derived from

sewage sludge. According to the organic consumer association the average, on the

average, organic food's shelf price is only 20% higher han chemical food, this makes it

actually cheaper, gram for gram, than chemical food,

even ignoring the astronomical hidden costs (damage to health, climate, environment, and

government subsidies) of industrial food production.

Conventional farmers claim that organic food prices are expensive, this is untrue, if you

add the price for pesticide, coast for cleaning up the environment, and coast of health

issue, subsidies that the government provide to conventional farmers, conventional

farming is way more expensive.