Sentences with phrase «conventional food producing»

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However, critics argue that organic agriculture may have lower yields and would therefore need more land to produce the same amount of food as conventional farms, resulting in more widespread deforestation and biodiversity loss, and thus undermining the environmental benefits of organic practices5.

In Australia, apart from using the wrapping to distinguish organics from conventional foods, there are some other reasons why organic fresh produce is packaged.

For people who want to start buying some organic foods, Karr and Goldstein recommended the Environmental Working Group's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce and its Dirty Dozen list, which points out which produce is best to buy organically, due to high levels of synthetic pesticides in conventionaProduce and its Dirty Dozen list, which points out which produce is best to buy organically, due to high levels of synthetic pesticides in conventionaproduce is best to buy organically, due to high levels of synthetic pesticides in conventional food.

I have known Bob for just over 6 years now, first as a customer at the Old Town Farmers» Market and the old Town & Country Farmers» Market (his first), then as a competitor and now as customer again... One thing was always crystal clear, this is an incredibly smart gentleman that cares about people, is passionate about growing high quality ORGANIC produce and truly wants to see organics on a level playing field with conventional produce and people of all walks of life given the opportunity to eat good clean food.

Moms line up neatly into one of two camps — the anal - retentive, organic produce - plying perfectionists or the TV - watching, junk - food - feeding slackers — or so the conventional wisdom goes.

While our commitment to quality, and to handmade, real, fresh food costs us more to produce than using conventional ingredients, «big food» industrial processes, and shipping frozen meals, we believe it is worth the extra expense and effort, and we think you will too.

However, following reports that 13 Member States were unlikely to be compliant with the EU directive by 1 January 2012, meaning an estimated 50 million hens would still be housed in battery cages, Defra announced that many retailers and major food suppliers were putting in place «stringent traceability tests» to guarantee they will not supply eggs produced from illegal conventional cages or use them as ingredients in their own brand products.

According to an analysis from Iowa State University, conventional produce travels about 1,500 miles on average to its destination, causing the release of 5 to 17 times more carbon dioxide than food from regional and local farms.

This journey also led me to question three pillars of conventional wisdom about today's industrialized agrochemical agriculture: that it feeds the world, is a more efficient way to produce food and will be necessary to feed the future.

By reviewing over 90 academic studies on consumer response to process labels, the researchers found that while these labels satisfy consumer demand for quality assurances and can create value for both consumers and producers, misinterpretation is common and can stigmatize food produced by conventional processes even when there is no scientific evidence those foods cause harm.

While the website version of «What's On My Food» is helpful for advance planning, the iPhone app is handy while plying the supermarket produce aisles to help decide whether to go for organic vegetables or stick with the cheaper conventional ones.

Organic food If you're tossing organic produce into your grocery cart with wild abandon, the final bill might be wince - worthy — you'll typically spend 30 % to 50 % more than you would on the conventional type.

Certainly it is better to buy organic rather than conventional produce in the supermarket, or to ship in pastured beef from out of state if none is locally available, but this is only a small first step toward real food.

If you're not going to choose organic for all of your produce and other foods, at least make sure to choose organic when it comes to the top 6 worst offenders for pesticide residue in conventional produce:

If you are price conscious, conventional produce is fine and a much better option than filling your grocery cart with chips, crackers, soda pop and other junk foods.

And if I do buy conventional produce, is it possible to wash it adequately, or are the toxins distributed throughout the food?

That means saying goodbye to food that comes from factory farms (if you eat animal products), conventional produce that is laced with pesticides, herbicides, insecticides and other harmful chemicals like Glyphosate, and choosing food that is grown and raised in a healthy, happy, sustainable way.

Modern lifestyle factors like the overuse of antibiotics, and diets high in processed, preserved, and histamine producing foods (i.e. most conventional yogurt), all contribute to an unhealthy gut biome.

«But I would say for you if conventional produce is all you can get, guess what, it's still better than your alternative because of processed food and animal products, those are the two categories of other foods besides plant foods.

So by eating conventional produce we may get a tiny bump in cancer risk, but that's more than compensated by the dramatic drop in risk that accompanies whole food plant consumption.

Yes, they do sell organic food there, but it is much more expensive than the other places that we shop and the quality is worse than the conventional produce they offer.

The White Paper also covers the history of commercial pet foods, and explains how conventional dog and cat foods came to be and why they continue to use commodity ingredients and produce carbohydrate based foods.

Good to see the development and commercialization of natural forms of fertilizer as fertilizer is so important to food production and getting rid of some of the negative impacts of conventional fertilizers that are mass produced while getting more production out of crops is a double benefit that should help drive this product's use

The biomethane that fuels the Bio-Bus is generated from sewage and food waste (waste which is unfit for human consumption), and because the bus» engine produces lower emissions while burning biomethane than conventional diesel does, it could not only help improve air quality, but also help to prove the case for more waste - to - fuel projects.

In the end, to achieve sustainable food security we will probably need many different techniques — including organic, conventional, and possible «hybrid» systems — to produce more food at affordable prices, ensure livelihoods for farmers, and reduce the environmental costs of agriculture....

The Traysrenew project in the EU was a multi-year project with the goal of producing food trays for poultry products that are cost effective, renewable, and higher performance than their conventional counterparts.

This integrated biosystem will produce seven times more food, fuel, and fertilizer than a conventional operation and four times as many jobs.

A survey of food consumed in Iowa showed conventional produce traveled on average 1,500 miles, not including food imported from other countries.

«If you don't want to feed your family food contaminated with pesticides, the EWG Shopper's Guide helps you make smart choices, whether you're buying conventional or organic produce,» said Sonya Lunder, an EWG senior analyst.