Organic Foods – Primal Group

Innovating Agriculture to Feed the World

Our global food industry has sustained more people with increased efficiency and at a lower cost than any other period in human history. The problem is that agriculture continues to have an astounding and detrimental influence on global health and the environment.

Polluted waterways caused by fertilizer runoff affect the majority of the planet, harmful growth hormones are traced in the meat we eat, malnourishment persists across developing nations, a profound obesity epidemic exists in first world economies and several million pounds of food is unnecessarily wasted every year. Now the leading cause of deforestation, one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions and a major contributor to biodiversity’s 6th extinction, global agriculture must evolve to ensure our own survival.…

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.…