The carbon footprint of organic food is friendlier as a principle of organic farming is to recycle their own resources, like animal manure, natural byproducts and compost – with a heavy ethos on crop rotation too.
Fundamentally they produce healthier food as food grown in organic, richer soils have a higher level of micronutrients.
Although healthy foods that are not organic can be nutritious, they are likely to have been exposed to harmful pesticides during production. Pesticides come with many adverse health effects, in the short term these are considered ‘acute’ and include; rashes, nausea, diarrhea and blisters. In the longer term, they can result in more severe effects like blindness or even fatalities.
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