Mark Trotter says Fight for Organics!
Jessica Vachal wrote this article on behalf of Mark Trotter, CEO of YoNaturals.
The hope that organics may become more commonplace has been a long-held hope among those who are avid organic consumers, yet it would seem that that future dream may become a reality sooner than we could have hoped. Of course, the reasons behind this move towards a more commonplace lifestyle of organics and healthful eating do not come from such a hot place for America in general, but the current economic hardships in which our country presently finds itself may do something to finally make people realizes the changes in lifestyle that can be brought about simply by changing the way we eat and the relationship that we have with food and with farming that food in general.
As gasoline prices continue to rise and fuel gets most costly, farming is becoming a more and more daunting way to earn a living, when the additions of pesticides and other chemical poisons are added into the equation, the price of farming climbs even higher and we are faced with the fact that conventional methods of farming may simply not be the most cost-effective means of raising produce and making a living, in general. Looking aside from the income of the farmer himself and the money he must spend to glean whatever profit he can out of the lands which he lovingly works and farms day in and day out, we must look at the American population in general, as we are trying to save ourselves money first and foremost.
Land has always been expensive, that is a fact that cannot be denied, but now that it is getting even more expensive to drive tractors around this land, and to use the various other machines that are necessary in the modern world of farming today. The land itself is hardly the only expenditure for the modern farmer, the machines are also not the end of the money he must put out in order to produce the foods that will earn him a profit. Indeed, the modern farmer must spend money on the seeds he will plant and the mass amounts of fertilizers and growth aids he will need to make sure his plants have the nutrients necessary to grow and flourish.
In addition, the most expenditure the modern farmer has, generally-speaking and in terms of conventional farmers, is pesticides. Pesticides that make specific crops almost impervious to insects and other creatures that would destroy a crop and make an entire seasons’ worth of work futile, insects that can be headed off with the poisons that many conventional farmers still use. However, these poisons hurt the people who eat the foods, and they hurt the soil in which these crops are grown. Yet, farmers fear moving away from using these pesticides because they do not want to lose out on the crops that earn them their profit.
If they stopped earning a profit on those poisonous crops anyway, however, they might be more inclined to grow organically. They would have nothing to lose if they were already making no money off of the crops that they doused in chemicals and then sold to the public. This is where the American public comes in – if we continue to buy organic and to let farmers know that we want to eat only those foods that are healthiest for us, then they will respond to our desires by growing more crops organically, and the world will be healthier because of it. So come on America, band together, and fight for what you know you deserve!
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