Sentences with phrase «buying organic crops»

[24] And buying organic crops and meat is better for the earth: organic farmers must follow sustainable farming practices, like improving biodiversity, crop rotation on fields, and biologically - friendly pest management.

Not exact matches

Buying organic food means no pesticides, buying local food also means eating seasonally which can help you avoid foods that come from monoculture Buying organic food means no pesticides, buying local food also means eating seasonally which can help you avoid foods that come from monoculture buying local food also means eating seasonally which can help you avoid foods that come from monoculture crops.

Are pomegranates one of those low - pesticide crops that we don't need to worry about buying organic?

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«There is a broader, big business effort to undermine these values and we can rally around the Co-op's efforts to buy local and organic crops.

And while it's great to buy organic, some of us may be far removed from the idea of sticking our hands in the pesticide - free soil, planting heirloom seeds, watering the crop, and nurturing it to full harvest.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

Buying organic supports the health of the environment and the workers who are exposed to the toxins when working in fields and harvesting crops.

Among the top 10 most common GMO crops are: Corn, Soy, Cotton, Sugar Beets, Canola, Papaya, Zucchini and Summer Squash so it is best to choose organic when buying these foods.

By choosing to eat as ethically as possible and also buying organic and local produce too, because transport and chemicals sprayed on non-organic crops is also very harmful to animals too and to your body.

And while not necessary, I do try to always buy organic potatoes since they are a heavily sprayed crop when it comes to pesticides and herbicides.

I buy enormous quantities of dried beans from a local armer who grows gorgeous organic, heirloom crops.

We also have an uninhabited island bought on Craigslist for artists, a tiny 107 - square - foot British - themed apartment in Brazil, organic, lactose - and gluten - free ice cream treats, must have crops for a foodie's garden, UNESCO saying no to wind turbines, and more, in our roundup of the best photos on TreeHugger this week.

Buy organic varieties of these crops if you want to avoid genetically modified produce.»