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From an environmental perspective this work demonstrates the fact that the growth of this movement has been reinvigorated as a result of the fact that many have come to understand how dangerous many of the chemicals used in commercial agriculture are to the earth and the body. "The last few years have seen the issues of BSE, genetically modified foods, hormone disruption and antibiotic resistance come to the fore and there is a greater recognition that what we eat is vitally important to our health." She notes that many of the pesticides and herbicides we have used in the past have been a destructive force and are no longer even considered safe, but were deemed so prior to the modern research that has more scientifically established their unwanted and pollutant effects on both the body and earth.
Organic Food Benefits. Nutiva. Organic Food Association. 2003. http://www.nutiva.com/nutrition/organic.php.
This informative article demonstrates a list of the top ten reasons why we should eat and grow organic foods, in a sustainable manner. 1.Organic foods meet stringent standards. 2. Organic food tastes great. 3. Organic production reduces health risks. 4. Organic farms respect water sources. 5. Organic farmers build soil. 6. Organic farmers work in harmony with nature. 7. Organic Producers are leaders in innovative research. 8. Organic producers strive to preserve biodiversity. 9. Organic farming helps keep rural communities healthy. 10. Organic abundance "now every food category has an organic alternative."
Organic Is Healthier." The Daily Mail (London, England) 29 Oct. 2007: 24.
A newspaper article...
"Up Close & Personal." Better Nutrition. October 2003, Vol. 65 Issue 10, p 52.
Uhland discusses the utilization of not only food products produced organically but also personal care products, which also leech into our skin, earth and water supplies and should be as important as the food we eat.
Weed, Susun. "Organic": Is it Healthier? Soybeans Pollute, Tofu Causes Dementia, Capsuled Herbs Are Poisonous." Whole Earth Spring 2002: 12.
Weed's extensive article demonstrates that organic food growing is much more likely than other types of agriculture to take biodynamic consideration of soil and the need for retaining minerals and other helpful chemicals in the soil in which we grow food. If this is not paid attention to then organic and non-organic foods are both equally at risk of creating health problems.
Whole Foods Magazine. Whole Foods Natural Foods Guide: What Happens to Natural Food Products from Farmer to Consumer. Berkeley, California: and/or Press, 1979.
This work is an old standard, outlining the manner in which whole foods and natural foods meet consumer needs. This work is expansive and even includes recipes with handy shopping guides as well as demonstrative reasons why organic food growth is better for the body, the environment and communities.
Weed's extensive article demonstrates that organic food growing is much more likely than other types of agriculture to take biodynamic consideration of soil and the need for retaining minerals and other helpful chemicals in the soil in which we grow food. If this is not paid attention to then organic and non-organic foods are both equally at risk of creating health problems.
Whole Foods Magazine. Whole Foods Natural Foods Guide: What Happens to Natural Food Products from Farmer to Consumer. Berkeley, California: and/or Press, 1979.
This work is an old standard, outlining the manner in which whole foods and natural foods meet consumer needs. This work is expansive and even includes recipes with handy shopping guides as well as demonstrative reasons why organic food growth is better for the body, the environment and communities.
Organic Produce & Farming For most of history, farming was organic simply because of the available materials used in agriculture. Only during the middle to late 20th and early 21st centuries, with the advent of synthetic chemicals, was a new process for fertilizing and preserving foods available. This more recent style of production is referred to as "conventional," though organic production has been the convention for a much greater period of
Everyday will also maintain its own Web site for online distribution. Already, one competitor, M&M/Mars is exploring this channel to increase its sales as well as profit margins. Online, consumers can personalize their own labels or foil overwraps which enable manufacturers to charge far more money for their candy (Moran, 2008). "What they have done is drawn the focus away from the chocolate and drawn attention to the product. For
When regulations increase, the tendency to cheat might increase. 2.4 Switzerland/Denmark Examples for Organic Farming Ruth Rossier (2005), College of Agriculture, Auburn University, purports in the study, "Role models and farm development options: A comparison of seven Swiss farm families," Following not yet rewritten: with the framework of agricultural policy that has changed dramatically since the 1990s including the introduction of direct payments and the enforcement of various agrarian reforms (Agricultural Policy 2002
8 million, just a small fraction of the overall chocolate market which is about $6 billion in the United States alone (Organic chocolate booming in U.S.). Everday seeks significant market in the larger overall chocolate market where it will compete head on with America's leading selling candy bars, Snickers, Hershey's Chocolate, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and M&M's (Beirne, 2006) instead of niche organic players such as Dagoba, Green & Black,
This is underscored by the brief history of organic farming as described in the text by Paull (2006). Paull would refer to a British agriculturalist named Lord Northbourne, who would coin the term organic farming to refer to that which viewed the whole ecology of the farm as something which must be preserved. In his work with Lyons (2008), Paull would renew his endorsement of organic regulatory measures, this time in response to increased consideration of
The ambition is to promote organic chocolate and its implied benefits outside of historically niche markets. One year marketing objectives include a penetration of U.S. sales markets, where it is predicted that by 2011, the organic chocolate market will have experienced a 71% increase in sales over five years. It is the ambition of Everday to have accounted for every 20th bar of chocolate bought in the United States by