"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Business Loans -----The Food For Your Business
Tired of the nagging boss and want to start a new venture or is your organization sick or all your money is involved in the market? For all this you want to raise capital; in fact, raising capital is a complex and frustrating process. However, if you are ...
Citric Fruits - A Healthy Food
New studies suggested once again that citric fruits including oranges, tangerines, and grapefruits help fight cancer, high cholesterol, and obesity. Studies both at Texas A&M University and Kanazawa Medical University in Japan showed that compounds in ...
Zambia's Position On GM Food Intriguing
The position of the Zambian government on genetically modified food has always statled me.They say this and do that with regard to GMOs. For starters, Zambia suffers perennial chronic food shortage mainly due to drought. This Southern African country ...
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Besides the fact that organic food tastes better and it reduces the amount of cancer-causing chemicals that enter your body, there are plenty of other very good reasons why you should buy organic food. Here are just a few:
Organic Meat Comes From Healthier Animals
The animal from which you got your meat is guaranteed to have been healthy throughout its life. Why? Part of the criteria governing organic products is agreeing not to use antibodies to treat an illness. Animals that are raised with the ultimate goal of being organic are raised in more humane conditions (as outlined by the United States' Humane Society). These better living conditions result in healthier animals and healthier animals simply are less prone to illness and disease. Of course, nothing can guarantee an animal will never become ill, and occasionally one will require antibiotics to cure an ailment. When this situation happens however, the animal that was treated with the antibiotics must be removed from the organic farm. The affected animal loses its organic status and is usually sold to a conventional farm where it lives out the remainder of its life.
Buying Organic Is A Form of Protest
When you buy organic food, you're basically making a statement that you care about what you're putting into your body. So much is happening to our food before it enters the supermarket. We hear about it, yet we do nothing to stop it. If you ever took a few moments to think about all that food is exposed to, from start to finish, the details likely would boggle your mind. Sure, all that perfectly-shaped produce and those rather full-sized chicken breasts look enticing, but those perfections are the end result of growth hormones, genetic engineering, and an abundance of pesticides and fertilizers. You've probably heard the saying, "Nature is not perfect" countless times, yet time and again you continue to reach for that perfect tomato. When you buy organic, you are in effect saying you don't want to be part of that scene any longer. When enough people buy organic, and more are making the switch every day, food companies will be forced to listen to consumers.
It's Something You Can Do to Protect the Environment
The chemicals that go onto the fields that produce the fruits and vegetables you eat and that feed the cows and pigs that turn into your hamburgers and pork chops contaminate the soil and the water. This affects the animals that live off the land and it also contaminates the environment. When you choose foods that are produced without these cancer-causing chemicals, you are not adding to this problem. Your purchases likely won't put an end to environmental damage, but as with all things in life, change begins with one person. Get a few friends to change their buying and eating habits, and then have them get a few friends to change and soon enough, a sizeable impact will be in the works.
About The Author
Gray Rollins is a featured writer for OrganicNourishment. To learn more about organic food, visit http://www.organicnourishment.com/ and http://www.organicnourishment.com/foodstobuyorganic/.
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The Raw Food Diet for PetsNew York Times (blog)For years, raw food enthusiasts have touted the health benefits of uncooked food for humans. Now, some veterinarians and pet owners believe that a raw meat diet is best for pets. Sharon Misik, an actress who adopted two Siberian huskies in 2008 from a ... |
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