Food part 2

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Beginning with the research about Food and why Organic Food is good for us, I wanted to look into how food is being promoted right now and what we can do to better our communities eating habits. Something i found shocking was a new restaurant opened in Chandler Arizona. They promote eating un-healthy. They don't even serve lettuce at the least with there burgers, The heart attack grill is an exaggeration of what is promoted everyday to our food habits. with commercials from carls junior with girls rolling around in soapy water selling a messy burger, to burger king and Mcdonalds competing with each other. You never see a girl rolling around in a fresh field of organic strawberries, or a man dripping with sweat working hard in a garden to serve his family a fresh meal. Talking about organic food can be helpful, but getting to the core issue is where the good story is at. So i did a little more digging...

How does it effect Climate Change?

Over the past 250 years, deforestation, combustion
of fossil fuels, and production of agricultural commodities
such as rice and livestock have caused atmospheric
concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse
gases to rise significantly. “

Financial Crisis
One of the major reasons people don't eat organically is because it cost more. I google'd "Why people dont eat organic" and the very first website to pop up was "17 tips for buying organic food on the cheap" But why are websites even here helping us eat healthy cheaper? Why is it so hard to find? My hypothesis is that it cost's to ship them around, as well as more manual labor because there arent pesticides helping the growth, people actually have to work more to make perfect growing conditions for the plants.

The opposing side
Running into this article made me think about some valid points. Yes, eating organically helps you and the environment but does it really? The article discusses the process in which an organic apple from california, is shipped to New York, and how much fuel was burned in that process? Causing more CO2 emissions, and contributing to the war based on oil. How can we make the process cheaper, and more "green" at the same time? People in some states are having a hard time getting locally grown Organics, this means we must spread the idea of making Gardens around the Nation. This was just a small thought.

Why go Organic?
I think if we inform people on why organic is the way to go, it might help with the cause. What are the effects in-organic food can have on you?

• When you buy organic food you don't consume pesticides and the farm workers aren't exposed to it as well . Pesticides have been known to cause diarrhea to harming enzymes in your nervous system.
• "A recent study of 600 people found that those exposed to pesticides had a 1.6 times greater risk of developing Parkinson’s disease than those who were not"
• organic foods contain, on average, 25 percent higher concentration of 11 nutrients than their conventional counterparts.
• organic vegetables have a higher concentration of natural antioxidants called flavonoids