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High on Nutrition, No Chemicals: 6 Reasons to Go Organic and Help Make the Planet Better
News 18You may feel overwhelmed by the outpouring of slogans and labels on eco-friendly living without really understanding the need to go organic. Here’s a way to connect the dots between choosing to buy organic and saving the planet: simply put, inorganic ways of growing produce and manufacturing put a tremendous strain on the earth’s resources, often damaging and depleting them completely. Organic India shares six ways in which you can try and buy organic: Organic food is grown without chemicals Organic or regenerative farming does not use fertilisers or pesticides. Organic food choices help keep the pressure off health care All nutritious foods need not be organic but all organic foods are most likely to be nutritious! Organic food choices promote the ‘farm-to-table’ philosophy The idea of farm-to-fork nurtures the most important of earth’s resources: human beings.
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Fertilizers are source of several diseases; switch to organic farming, says Amit Shah
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Organic food regulation should protect interests of consumers, farmers
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