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Question: How does Organic pet food help my pet live longer? Is there a difference between Organic and all natural food?
I have been thinking about feeding my dog Organic pet foods, then I see something called “all natural foods.” What is the difference if any?
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Answer by Alice
Organic means grown without herbicides or pesticides. All natural means everything in it is natural… eg. a plant, animal or grain.
Pesticides are made to kill things… anyone who thinks they can kill the bugs and weeds but are perfectly safe to consume should really think about it. I know they are consumed in minute quantities, but over time I tend to wonder why we have so much more cancer and immunodeficiency ailments these days such as asthma and severe allergies.
Whichever you go with be sure it is a good quality animal diet… as far as cost goes you are better off buying a grain free (or at lease wheat and corn free) diet over an organic diet with wheat or corn in the top 5 ingredients. If you can afford an organic grain free diet…then your pup is one lucky dog!
Wheat and corn are much harder on your animal than the small amount of pesticides are…
And this is coming from someone who buys organic LOTS and truely understands the difference.
Question: Anyone who read The Omnivore’s Dilemma plzzzz help!!!?
i am writting an essay on this book …the essay should be on what is problamatic or compelling to you……ive read the book but not sure if i understand it very well.espacially when Pollan writes whats the differences between the big organic farming with “small time farming”?…. i need help ….plz i really appreciate if you tell me what the argument is about?
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Answer by Mr. Smartypants
The book is really about how politics and economics and market strategies have affected the food we eat, and how hard it is for someone to eat like we did 100 years ago before all this happened. Even ‘healthy’ foods have fallen victim to politics and economics, what Pollan calls “The Whole Foods Scam”.
For instance, for 30 years the US govt. did all they could to discourage people from wanting ‘organic’ produce. There were ‘experts’ on TV insuring people that food grown with chemical fertilizers and pesticides was just as healthy, that all organic foods offered extra was a little dirt. But all through the 70s, 80s and 90s customer demand for organic fruits and veggies continued to increase. So the govt. then reacted by writing a law to redefine ‘organic’. So now conventional farms only have to make minor changes in order to sell their ordinary food as ‘organic’.
Also chickens and eggs labeled ‘free range’ usually only means that a door was open in the chicken coop for a small part of the chicken’s life, usually after the animal was so accustomed to the crowded chicken house it wouldn’t venture outside.
Plus the big producers of cows, pigs, etc. have gotten the laws set up to favor them, so a small-time operator who wants to make a better product–like pasture-fed beef–has a hard time marketing his wares. Pollan talks about a special slaughterhouse that was built for small farms, but it couldn’t be used because of regulations set to favor the big corporate farms.
What Pollan is showing in the whole book is that just about everything we eat is ‘designed’ and marketed for the profits and convenience of large corporations, not because it’s good food. That, as with so many other things in our culture today, the profits of corporations are put above the health and well-being of citizens. At least that’s what I got out of the book.
Question: please help me with Science?
1.) Organic matter is divided into two main categories: (1) organic residues, i.e., plant material, manures, etc. in some stage of partial decay, and (2) stable soil humus.
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False
2.) Soil scientists tell us that stable soil humus is categorized into three distinct fractions. These fractions are typically found in nature in a balance consisting of : (1) 50% humins, (2) 10% fulvic acids, (3) 40% humid acids.
True
False
3.) Dursban, the most widely used insecticide in the country, is also among the pesticides most hazardous to human health, according to scientific studies and the findings of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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False
4.) Chlorpyrifos and dursban are not the the same chemical.
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False
5.) Rainwater that washes over dirty surfaces such as roads, buildings and lawns is not a source of pollution in rivers, lakes and bays.
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False
6.) The Clean Water Act mandates storm water control.
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False
7.) ________ giant livestock farms also known as feedlots that house thousands of cows.
Factory farms
commercial buldings
8.) At factory farms, “lagoon” means an open-air pit filled with urine and manure.
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False
9.) When manure is periodically pumped out of lagoons and sprayed on fields this is called a sprayfield.
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False
10.) Factory-farm lagoons also emit toxic gases such as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and methane.
True
False
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Answer by william
Do ur own homework… but here is a website that will ans some of ur questions…
Question: Anyone who read The Omnivore’s Dilemma plzzzz help!!!?
i am writting an essay on this book …the essay should be on what is problamatic or compelling to you……ive read the book but not sure if i understand it very well.espacially when Pollan writes whats the differences between the big organic farming with “small time farming”?…. i need help ….plz i really appreciate if you tell me what the argument is about?
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Answer by Ohiorganic
Industrial Organics Vs Local Organics
In the beginning before the USDA took over Organic certification almost all organic farms were small (under 500 acres) and diversified. Most sold directly to their customers and it was hard to find their products in any stores and when you did it would be the locally owned health food store and almost never a big chain store. At this time there were over 65 different independent Organic certifiers
Than in 2002 the USDA took over Organic regulations and certification and nationalized it so there was one rule for the entire USA instead of 65+ certifiers, each with their own take on the regulations. this allowed the big food and agriculture corporations to jump on board and thus the industrial Organic farm was born. these tend to be large farms that grow only a couple of things and look very much like their conventional counterparts. It is from these farms and corporations we get the name brand certified organic (and often overly processed) foods
Today local organic farms may or may not be USDA certified (my farm is not USDA certified, for example but it was up until 2002 when my certification ran out and the USDA ran the show), they sell the vast majority of their food direct to the public via CSA’s, Farmers market and farm stands. They also sell to locally owned natural foods stores and restaurants that feature locally raised foods
So the argument is that local foods are much better for the environment, local economy and our health than industrially raised organics which are little better than conventionally raised foods
http://www.organicconsumers.org has many articles about this topic
http://www.localharvest.org also discusses this
I have not read the book but this argument is a big part of my life and what I do.
http://www.boulderbeltfarm.com
http://boulderbelt.blogspot.com
Question: please help me to find topic to talk about in my report “Organic Farming”?
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Answer by Toltec
Ever heard of Google?
http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/torg.html
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Organic+Farming&btnG=Search
I used to tell my kids…use your brain not mine.