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Top 10 Reasons to Eat Organic

  1. Protect Children: The average child receives four times more exposure than an adult to pesticides in food.
  2. Keep Chemicals Off Your Plate: Most herbicides and many insecticides have been found to be carcinogenic. There are no pesticides on organic food, or in you!
  3. Better Flavour and More Nutrients: Many chefs use organic foods because of superior flavour and quality.
  4. Support a True Economy: Conventional food pricing encourages chemical farming. Hidden costs include subsidies and environmental damage.
  5. Protect Soil Quality: Managing soil quality is the foundation of organic farming. Sustainability is fundamental to the ecology and the earth.
  6. Protect Water Quality: Chemical farming with pesticides, herbicides and other chemicals contaminates the groundwater in numerous provinces including Manitoba. E-Coli has now been confirmed to contaminate many of the surface waters and potentially the aquifers and water wells around Winnipeg.
  7. Cut Pollution and Wasted Energy: More energy is used to produce synthetic fertilizers than to cultivate and harvest crops.
  8. Protect the Health of Farmers: Farmers exposed to herbicides have six more times the risk of contracting cancer compared to non-farmers.
  9. Help Small and Local Organic Farmers: Most organic farms are small, independent family operations of less than 100 acres. There are several local Manitoba organic farms and growing.
  10. Promote Bio Diversity: Chemical farming pollutes the air and mono-cropping leaves the soil lacking in natural minerals and nutrients.