Should Organic Foods Be Considered A Luxury?

Organic foods are more nutritious and are not contaminated. The absence of nutritional substances in agriculturally processed foods and the increased need for labor raise the price of organic food.

Judging from its price, it appears that organic food may not easily be afforded by everyone. When we reflect on what we take home, it’s pretty obviously. Many wonder: if no chemicals are used, why should it be more expensive?

First, industrial agriculture is largely subsidized, which reduces its price.

Organic farming does not support this specific model or theory: large monocultures are an invitation to pests. Organic cultivation of different varieties of plants, from being overrun by a large number of insects, for example, a plague.

Many of the plants considered weeds in the topic of medicinal plants. Organic foods are usually harvested in the farming areas of fruitful land, with a variety of wild plants used as food for insects, and trees that "hold" the fertile ground. In this way it reduces the risk of major pests, and it also enriches the soil.

This type of crop combination utilized more traditional methods. It requires more labor, and this increases its cost. But it also creates more jobs and employment.

Whether organic foods should be something to be considered expensive or luxurious, in fact, depends not only on price but the relationship between quality and price: what gives us food diversity, and what does not give us the essential nutrients we need to survive?

• Increased concentration of nutrients: Chemical fertilizers are basically three elements we need to know about: nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. This produces larger fruits and vegetables, but with a greater proportion of water. When fertilized with organic manure and compost (vegetable waste digested by bacteria, worms, etc.), it allows the trace elements (magnesium, zinc, selenium) back to earth. This means that organic products are rich in micronutrients: vitamins and minerals, and protein and carbohydrates.

• Less waste content in pesticides and fertilizers: It is difficult to ensure that they have no chemical content, and now the entire food chain contains residues of pesticides and fertilizers, including groundwater. But in any case, the harmful content is much lower in organic products.

• Many carcinogenic chemicals are really endocrine disruptors, (substances that behave like hormones in the body, causing the "feminization" of male individuals, and vice versa.) This is threatening the reproduction of many animal species and is one of the causes of the decline in the number of sperm in the male sperm in the West.

• Increased amount of flavor. This supports the fact that organic products are more tasteful and provide for better appetite.

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