While there should be no doubt about the fact that organic food promotes health, it seems that many people no longer trust the “certified organic” seal on products in shops.

Well, I don’t blame them. With so much underhand dealing and wheeling amongst organizations and groups, who can be sure these days about seals?

Truly organic does not contain any harmful substances. Truly organic food is not treated with synthetic insecticides, growth hormones and commercial fertilizers.

The problem is, since farmers who grow their crops organically are surrounded by big commercial land tracts, where all the harmful substances are used liberally and we as humans have no control over the natural elements like wind and rain, there can no longer be a 100% percent guarantee that organic plots won’t somehow be affected by what’s used on the commercial land.

So, in a way, all consumers have to bear the detrimental consequences of our present industrialized system.

What worsens the situation, however, is the fact that non-organic food is cheaper than organic. Especially in tight economic times like the present, more and more people reckon they don’t have a choice between organic and non-organic if they need to save on expenses.

Thus consumers have become the puppets of those who are in control of food production and distribution.

Why?
We have grown lazy and indolent.
It’s so much easier to just run to the next shop to quickly buy a bread and some veggies than to bake your own bread or grow your own vegetables.

For our comfort’s sake we rather accept poor quality. For ease’s sake we are willing to offer our health.

Even if some of us may still know how to bake a bread, or how to grow vegetables, we don’t do it, so our children won’t ever learn to do it.

What will be the end result?
They, the next generations, will become complete puppets of those in control of the economy. They’ll be completely unable to ever even think that it could be different.

Society will be back where it was two centuries ago – a few rich landlords with vassals under them, who would have no say over their own lives.

Do we really want that for our children?

Well, I don’t. So I started doing something about it. Check out my Food Garden for Parrots page.