Have you ever heard someone say, “Oh, that’s food for thought”? They mean that whatever has just been said bears giving additional consideration to. Organic food is not only “food for thought,” but “thoughtful food” as well.

Some people take the attitude that food is just…well…food. An apple is an apple is an apple. They know that there are different varieties, but that’s where they stop making comparisons.

There are a great many differences between organically produced foods and traditionally produced foods. In traditional food production, many chemicals are used. Before seeds are planted, the soil is made more fertile with the use of chemical fertilizers. Then, as the plants grow, and in order to keep pests from eating them, the farmer sprays them with toxic pesticide.

When the plant bears fruit, that fruit (whatever it is – whether it is an apple or a squash or an onion) has some of the chemicals from the fertilizer in it and some of the toxins in the pesticides on it. You can wash them as many times as you want but there are still toxins there and when you eat those fruits and vegetables, you are also eating some of the chemicals that were used to produce them.

The same thing is true of meat production, except that the animals are fed antibiotics to reduce the incidence of disease and growth hormones to make them grow faster. You get some of those chemicals when you eat meat that is produced using traditional methods.

The plants and animals used for organic food production are never exposed to synthetic, toxic chemicals or drugs so there are no synthetic, toxic chemicals or drugs on them or in them. Doesn’t that make choosing between traditionally produced food and organically produced foods an easy choice?