What's the difference between Organic and Conventional Produce?

[James]

Have you been swept up in the organic craze that's been sweeping the U.S. and no doubt, the rest of the world? Probably, and like most of us you've probably noticed the large price difference between the two different varieties of the same produce. Perhaps you've noticed the difference in the price between an all organic peach and a convention orchard grown one? The difference in price is all about the amount of care that each individual peach receives before it is shipped off to market. If you've noticed, many of the organic varieties, come in a special foam wrapper that means it's not going to be too bruised up by the time you receive it and are ready to eat.

Another big difference between organic and non organic produce, is the fact that non organic produce is usually treated with any number of different pesticides and chemicals designed to kill any and all life that may happen to inhabit the surfaces of the plant that produces your fruits and veggies. And since plants' surfaces are generally porous and allow quite a bit of surface transfer to interior cell structures, the pesticides tend to find their way into the smallest of nooks only to be digested by us later. Organic produce tends to use natural insecticides and beneficial bacteria and insects to fight the war against other more harmful bacteria, and insects.

Organic food is both well taken care of, and shipped to you in the best of condition ensuring that you wind up with some of the freshest tastiest fruits and vegetables around. You'll know the difference between an organically grown product versus a non organically grown product. Especially once you've had the two at the same time on various occasions. Carrots taste sweeter when they are organically grown, potatoes have more of a starchy taste, and strawberries are sweeter. There are other reasons to consider organic food over the more conventional varieties.

One of those reasons is that the conventioanally grown produce tends to leach most of these chemicals directly from the ground into them, depositing their chemically goodness directly into you. How nice, that no matter the amount of washing that is done to any product of the conventional farm, you still will be left with trace amounts of the chemicals used in food propagation, harvest, and pest repellants. These chemicals have been proven by certain governmental bodies to cause all sorts of reproductive harm as well as being linked to cancer in lab animals. Do you really want to ingest something that has been linked to cancer? I should hope not. Those of you who would rather pay a little less for some extra goodies in your veggies, be warned that most of the side effects, are only shown after considerable time spent ingesting them, they are cumulative in other words. And every time you eat, you absorb a little more into your sometimes resulting in illnesses that can be directly linked to the intake of these bad chemicals.