Persuasive Speech - Should We Eat Organic or Inorganic Foods?

                Every day we consume food for energy, for work, for our brains to work, to move, for exercise, etc., but are the food that we consume healthy or unhealthy? We never pay attention to the nutrients, where the food came from, how our food grow, what chemicals are there in our food…etc. So what is the different between organic food and inorganic food?

                Organic foods are foods that are grown without fertilizers and synthetic chemical pesticides. Consumers buy organic foods to avoid chemicals. Organic productions reduce the health risk. According to the EPA, they considers 60% of all herbicides (weed killers), 90% of all fungicides (mold killers), and 30% of all insecticides (insect killers) as potentially cancer causing. Organic farming keeps harmful pesticides and chemicals out of the food and drinks that we consume. Eating organic products also reduces the risk of your body creating dangerous antibiotic-resistant pathogens from antibiotic in animal feed. The USDA predicts by the year of 2000, organic farming may be one of the few survival tactic left for the family farm and rural community.

                Inorganic foods are foods that are grown with fertilizers and chemicals to extend the life of products and to kill bacteria. Inorganic foods do not contain E-coli, common in animal manure. It also takes less land to grow nonorganic foods. Inorganic foods are easier for consumers to find, and its’ appearance is more appealing to the consumers’ eyes.

Did you know that if you consumed an average apple you would be eating over 30 pesticides, even after you have washed it? Even though organic foods are more expensive than nonorganic foods, organic foods are known to contain 50% minerals, vitamins and nutrients than produce from intensively farmed.