Organic food is produced without the use of chemical pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, or genetically modified organisms. Choosing organic benefits both health and the environment. Organic foods have fewer pesticide residues and are often more nutritious. They are grown using natural methods like crop rotation that enrich the soil and prevent pests naturally. Producing organic meat, dairy, fruits and vegetables involves giving animals more space and treating them humanely without the use of antibiotics or growth hormones. Choosing local and seasonal organic options further reduces the environmental impacts of long-distance transportation.

1. The Organic Food: Why? How?

2. What is organic food?
Legally, an organic product is a product of a way of crop or livestock that
do not use chemical synthesis, or a processed product of which at least
95% of the ingredients meet these criteria.
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Organic: why?
An INRA study indicates that a French "average" ingests nearly 1.5 kg of additives, pesticides
and other undesirable compounds per year !!
When we realize that it is our power that allows our body and our brain to function, do we
really want to give them knowingly toxic food?
A recent US study in children between 2 and 4 years (age group most at risk because of the
amount of food intake relative to their body mass) indicates that children fed organic food
pesticide residue levels six times lower than those who eat conventional food products ...
food for thought!
Thus, organic foods are richer nutritionally. They also have more flavor. With them, the meal
becomes a moment of discovery favors and benefits.

3. Organic: how?
Who says return to traditional practices does not say much to return to a simplistic
agriculture. Rather, the basis of organic farming is that crop rotation and reuse of organic
matter, requires strong knowledge. Crop rotation involves knowing different cultures, unlike
conventional farming where the farmer is focused on a single plantation. Moreover, the
refusal to use herbicides, insecticides and fungicides involves knowing use the weapons
offered by nature, and bend to their operation.
How can this be happening in practice?
Nature, well done as everyone knows, has scheduled a predator for each parasite. For
example, beetles feast on chinch bugs, while the hedgehog will make his feast slugs from
the garden. These animals are brought into organic crops. Using these natural methods can
be offered a success rate of around 100%. Similarly, plants interact with each other: the
smell of leeks hunting flies carrots, while the smell of carrots deters moths that could cause
parasitic worms leeks ... a virtuous circle and totally natural !
other remedies used successfully in organic farming are those plant extracts: homeopathy
and aromatherapy .

4. Organic: how?
Organic farming
As for agriculture, the only drugs used were homeopathy and herbal medicine. This
prevents the consumer to ingest regular doses of antibiotics or growth hormones previously
ingested by animals on which it feeds.
High breast milk and natural food, animals evolving in organic farms have a larger area per
head to move. Slaughtered later because it gives them time to grow naturally, much
attention is paid to them avoid stress in their last moments.
Short duration of transport to the slaughterhouse (maximum 2 hours), local soundproof,
rest rooms, can limit the toxins released into their bodies by animals suffering in the
conventional, strong stress before slaughter.
All these factors make the meat more tender and tasty organic than conventional meat.

5. Organic: how?
Why choose local and seasonal?
Our company of "all at once" has accustomed us to consume tomatoes from Morocco in
December or pears from Argentina in March.
But this requirement has an important ecological cost: use of non-renewable natural
resources, pollution, greenhouse ... are generated by these unnecessary transport.
When making the LCA of a strawberry yogurt, the total kilometers traveled by different
trucks to transport strawberries, milk, pot, etc. at the factory, then the purchasing center,
supermarket, then at you can reach ... 2400 km !!!!
Would it not be wiser and responsible to taste that which is done on the farm, the cow pie
in its pot in your department?
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6. Wines and Beverages
Fruit juices from organic farming
are richer in vitamins and minerals than traditional juices. Indeed, the producers expect the
mature fruit to perform the collection, so the vitamin content, trace elements and minerals
are at their maximum. Once picked, the fruits (and vegetables) are pressed immediately to
preserve their flavors.
With an alcohol content often lower than conventional beers, organic beers contain no
additives. Based on wheat or spelled, they provide vitamins and minerals to the body.
The wine "organic“
is made from grapes from organic farming, treated like other productions, for homeopathy
and herbal medicine. The vines are weeded by hand and are not heated. Organic wines are
no chemical additives, and in particular does not contain sulfur, this toxic preservative in
conventional wines and often responsible ... headaches!

7. Dairy products
Organic milk have long been followers, including among consumers
of conventional products.
The yogurt and cottage cheese, for their part, have an authentic taste
that is not found in conventional products and surprise the first
time. No chemical additives, no artificial flavors ...
Organic cheeses are many and varied. The milk is processed
immediately after milking, representing a significant freshness
advantage compared to industrial production.
Responsible for the entire manufacturing process , the producer can
ensure to maintain perfect hygiene, and each cheese is unique in its
conditions manufacturing.

8. Fruits and vegetables
Virtually all Western fruit trees are grown in France in organic farming, while the emergence
of a market of exotic fruits imported.
An orchard is fragile, and its maintenance in organic farming demand attention.
Insect pests of apples are treated with Bordeaux mixture and the bacillus of Thuringia, an
insect that gave the butterfly larvae. A strict size in winter and the careful selection of trees
and their associations are essential to the success of an organic orchard.
Among the exotic fruit, organic bananas is the most requested. Cultivated in the Dominican
Republic in the French overseas territories and Africa, it is harvested when ripe (not green)
and is not dipped in a fungicide bath (which also distinguishes it from conventional
bananas). Organic pineapples in turn are often offered more green than yellow, which is not
a sign of immaturity but quality.
As to vegetables, the care taken in soil that matters most, thanks a thorough plowing
and natural fertilization of the land . crop rotation, smart control "weeds", mechanical
weeding and use natural remedies can produce vegetables rich in micro-nutrients and free
of chemical residues.
of course, their lack of treatment leads to a difficulty conservation of organic fruits and
vegetables . To preserve all their virtues, be sure to consume very fresh or frozen, do not
peel (scrape the skin with a brush) and taste raw or steamed.

9. Bread and cereals
Although cereals represent 40% of the organic products market, France has to import, not
least to ensure that animal feed. Indeed, organic cereals provide a low return, farmers must
absolutely respect the crop rotation to enrich and let rest the earth.
To grow organic grain farmer practicing mechanical weeding or by fire, and enriches the soil
with natural fertilizers (compost, manure ..) and green manure (long root plants that till the
ground in depth and richer).
But these crops are also the source of great creativity, putting to date ancient grains or
neglected by conventional agriculture. Quinoa ( "rice of the Incas") Kamut (very high protein
wheat), millet can be found on the tables of organic food lovers to bring their variety and
complementarily.
This is also the case for pulses, often forgotten on French tables, which are yet to be favored
in the framework of a healthy and balanced diet.