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What’s the deal with organic food?

It seems to be everywhere these days, right?

Actually, its always been around. I was eating organic food in 1980 because my mom had a friend that owned a health food store in North Miami Beach.

Although many people think it is a new trend in food, organic farming has been practiced since the invention of farming about 12,000 years ago.

Organic produce is grown without pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, free from human or industrial waste, can not be genetically modified and processed with irradiation.

Organic food has fewer pesticides, fewer nitrates from fertilizers, is superior for our health and
the health of the environment, especially our soil.

The first list of produce below has the highest contamination from pesticides.

These are specific foods that you should definitely get organic.

If you can’t afford organic food all the time, or when you are traveling and don’t have much of a choice,
the second list of produce has the least amounts of pesticides and are relatively safer choices.

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