http://ringlat.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] ringlat.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] december_solstice 2015-09-13 10:59 pm (UTC)

From all that I've heard, it's good. The food might still end up getting some chemicals or something in them but it's at least going to be a lot less than otherwise, and the more people buy organic stuff the easier it is for the farmers to grow it. If you live near a farm you can even just go talk to them in person and pay them differently from what they would get paid if they delivered their stuff to the grocery store, if you have the money - from looking it up, milk is way cheaper here if you get it directly than if you buy it at the store, and there's been studies saying stuff like if a kid grows up on unprocessed milk then they have less allergies later in life... Well why not for food too?

Contrary to what some people might say, eating stuff like meat or milk from animals that were fed chemicals, the chemicals DO get into your body and in the very long run (just like with sugar etc.) they DO affect you. For example, the studies about white flour and sugar all pointed out the fact that the people who started eating them tended to get the illnesses associated with eating them, after about 20 years from first starting. But that's when they had lived their whole life not eating them. What about when your mom eats tons of it when you're already in the womb, and it's also the only food you ever have even as a baby?

Someone wrote somewhere that they looked at their friend's baby food - "ground rice" - and it had like 16 different ingredients in it. Your baby is only supposed to be eating plain ground rice, which you can very well just make yourself at home if you buy a grinder.

People just seriously have to remember that we had mercury even in stuff like kid's toys for a long time... and the generations growing up with that were seemingly healthier than our current generation.

They actually even had a commercial here where they got a family who didn't eat organic food, to get themselves tested for how many chemicals they had in their bodies, and then gave them all-organic food to eat for two weeks. By the end of the two weeks they tested them again and they had almost no chemicals, so the family was convinced and switched to eating organic.

Some food you can even just grow in a pot on your kitchen table (like leeks and onions) if you really want to. You can watch the commercial, it's pretty self-evident, they just have before/after charts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnfrJLlZ5LI

The guy at the end basically says "We don't know what long-term effects eating all these chemicals will have, but we also know that you can't just look at the fact that you're eating chemicals as if it's individually. Chemicals when mixed together can be incredibly more dangerous than when taken in alone."

There's another documentary that was actually made in Sweden that I wish I could show you, but it has no English subs. This guy went to get himself tested to figure out exactly what all the chemicals and everything were in his body, to see if the hype was true. Due to the food that we eat that is being grown non-organically, and on ground that's had different pesticides and stuff in it, among other things he had chemicals in his body that have actually been illegal to use for decades and that simply can't ever leave his body.

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