Taste wise organic stuff is over rated, ( chemicals make things better) but if you want to help the environment than it is good that there are less pesticides being used on produce and that kind of stuff

They don’t inject any hormones to the cows and organic produde will mean no pesticides!

Organic is hard to grow. The bugs attack and if the soil is poor , things don’t want to grow. BUT, there is no doubt they taste a lot better. Animals that are feed properly produce a better meat. They are healthier, they are not loaded with hormone’s, pesticides, and stressed from poor surroundings.Some people would like you to believe that there is no difference. When you begin to eat organic, your body will tell you the difference. While they sit sick, runny noses, and poor health, you will feel more alive and much healthier than they are. That is for sure. You are what you eat. Plain and simple. So eat the best. The best long term investment you will ever make.

It is a good thing. Unfortunately, it is a bit more expensive. But, from an enviromental standpoint- Typically, things that are raised or grown organically are healthier.

They are less damaging on the other plants and wildlife. They usually are done so without pesticides and various growth hormones, etc.

You are what you eat.

If you eat food that has been altered with hormones…. don’t you think some of those remain in the food when you eat them?

Aside from all the other Earth friendly aspects… Vegetables that are grown organically have a much better taste than ones that are mass produced.

Vegetables that you get in the store are usually harvested early. Sometimes they are treated with (mostly) harmless chemicals to keep them fresh

Try a homegrown tomato and a store bought tomato. You will be amazed at the incredible flavors in the homegrown!

Growing your own vegetables is something everyone should do! It takes some work… but it is soooo worth it!

By the way… Beef that is not organic is not all bad. It just depends on if hormones or other things are added to the food supply to fatten up the animals.

But, if you know someone that has a farm… Buy from them!!!

Keep it local~

Support your local farmers! I don’t want to start buying my food from China….

Good luck with the garden!!

wow - - free believers. . ! !

There Is No Published Information of Any Gain to Organic. .
the pesticides that caused all the problems in the 50s - 60s have been banned and removed from the market BY laws passed years ago
and chemical fertilizers are too expensive
ALL just hype and nonsensical fear
Besides No One admits to the millions of tax money (grants) given to the organic farmers

There really isn’t much of any difference between organic food and regular food. On vegetables, with both you really should wash the food. I think the move to organic vegetables has possibly contributed to the salmonella problems we are seeing with vegetables recently. Organic food is often fertilized with manure. And if the manure is administered improperly and ends up on the food, it could lead to salmonella problems like that have been seen recently. Notice that before the organic foods you never used to see that kind of problems on a regular basis. And where was it found? Stuff like spinach and tomatoes.

As far as with meat it is about the same. Most of the hormones even used in animals are hormones that are produced in the animal naturally. For example, there is no difference whatsoever between organic milk and non-organic milk. Even if the cow is given hormones to produce more milk, the hormone does not go into the milk. And if the milk is chemically examined it is exactly the same and has the same nutrients as organic milk. It’s just that the cow produces more milk.

And as far as antibiotics, animals are supposed to be removed for a certain length of time before they are butchered so that the antibiotic is flushed out of the animal’s system. This has to be done. Because some antibiotics such as sulfa drugs, certain people are allergic. If that wasn’t done, people who were allergic to sulfa drugs would end up dying from eating the meat from animals fed sulfa drugs.

The agricultural industry puts a lot of safeguards in place to make sure that the food they produce is ok for people. Organics are overhyped and if you compared the food on a chemical basis it is likely to be EXACTLY the same.

You also have to be careful with some organics. Some manures are high in heavy metal contents. That’s what happened with the First Lady Michelle Obama’s garden. The organic fertilizer the Clintons used made the garden bad because it put heavy metals in the ground. And it made the food unsafe to eat. In some ways, organic food can possibly be more unsafe to eat.

Wow Mike did you make all that up yourself? Organic farmers do get millions from the government but conventional farmers get billions of dollars in subsidies (well the commodity growers do, the fruit and vegetable growers get almost no monetary support and far less research support than the livestock and grain farmers). organic farms get about .001% of the government funding annually.

There is a lot of research saying that organic farming is better. Most of it peer reviewed has lots of papers listed as does and.

it is also false that only pesticides from the 1950’s and 1960’s are toxic and all have been banned. We have lots and lots of toxic ‘cides currently approved by the FDA and EPA and in use. Insecticide classes such as Organophosphates, Carbamates, Pyrethroids, Neonicotinoids, etc., are still in big time use

Okay, to the question. growing organically unless you are starting with great soil and lots of know how will be hard the first several years-there is a steep learning curve. Find a good farmers market or CSA to supplement your home grown organic food because you will not produce much the first years and you will not be growing nearly the variety you are used to unless you grow a really big garden. But a really big garden will overwhelm you and by July or August you in all likelihood will have given up on it and had a very very bad gardening experience. So start small with say no more than 10 crops that you really like a lot. A 10′ x 10′ plot will be a lot to handle the first year.

Locally raised grass fed beef is the best and well worth the extra money. You should also check into buying pastured eggs and chicken-these items are sooo much better than factory farmed it is like night and day.

Ohio again with her ignorance! Pyrethroids (naturall occuring) are used in organic farming! And the FDA has done studies proving that torganic produce has NO additional nutrition value!