Since I write about food for a living, people are always asking me food questions. Like why buy organic? It’s more expensive and there aren’t any more nutrients in it than conventionally grown food, they say. Staying with family brings that issue up, too. I’ve not been doing much—ok, any—of the shopping or the cooking these last few weeks (which has been a welcome break, thank you), which means that most of the food my family and I have been eating is anything but organic. So, I thought I’d share one reason I eat and feed my family as I (usually) do.
Mainly, I try to buy organic or local food because of what’s NOT in it—chemicals. I simply don’t want harmful herbicides, pesticides, hormones or antibiotics in my family’s food. But many eaters don’t believe that these chemicals are harmful. They rationalize that they have been eating them all along and are healthy people, so why change? But the evidence is mounting. Most recently Reuters reported that a new study links some of these chemicals to ADHA in children.
As for me, I’m not going to try to convert the unconvertible. Instead, I’m going to make more effort to buy organic and local—just as soon as I start doing the shopping again.
Tags: ADHD, herbicides, organic, pesticides, Reuters
