Supplying High Demand for Organic Foods
Increasingly popular for consumers, highly profitable for producers and extremely beneficial to our health and environment, organics are making their way to the mainstream.
Our current food production habits, although integral to saving one billion people from starvation during the Green Revolution, are unsustainable in the face of depleting energy and water supplies as well as the drastic effect these practices have on global health and our environment. Organic food production, the sustainable alternative, prohibits the use of synthetic pesticide, fertilizers, antibiotics or growth hormones for the development of crops or animal produce. Relying on natural strategies such as the use of biological pest control, nutrition and crop rotation, organic farming is safer for the environment due to its beneficial impact to natural habitats.…