Organic Foods

With so much concern today focusing on unhealthful additives and preservatives being placed in foods, many people are now turning to organic products.

Additives and artificial preservatives offer little towards nutrition and good health. Even apples, plucked off of trees are now immersed in a commercial waxy substance to increase shelf-life and stop the evaporation of water.

Foods grown without pesticides in naturally enriched soil is said to be healthier for your body. In the United States alone, Baby Boomers are moving out of the crowded cities into the suburbs, starting organic gardens and learning to live naturally, using products that will not harm the environment or their bodies.

Even livestock can be raised organically. Free-ranging livestock means that the cows, chickens and other livestock that we use for our food are allowed to roam large parcels of land.

They are not penned up in small containment pens, pumped full of growth hormones, or prophylactic antibiotics to prevent the spread of disease. A typical steak that ends up on your dinner plate would come from a cow that is one of 20,000 plus animals slaughtered every week.

Organic meats said to be better for the health of the human, is also purported to be better for the animal as far as living in better living conditions, even if only short-term.

When you go to the grocery store, look for “free range” on the label. If you see “free range” on the label, you will know the animal was raised in uncrowded natural conditions. These organic animals are not allowed to be injected with growth hormones or antibiotics and the land they graze on is not treated with commercial pesticides or fertilizers of any sort.

Before 1997 in the United States, cattle were typically fed bone meal that contained ground up and powdered bones and meat. Since the appearance of Mad Cow Disease aka Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, this practice has been stopped. It had been discovered that the cows were picking up this disease by ingesting this bone meal that sometimes contained parts of diseased animals.