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Organic Food Organically grown food tastes better, it’s safer, and it’s healthier for you. The major benefit of organic farming is the reduction of pollution. People who eat organic food eat it, not only, because they enjoy it but also because of the benefits it has. In the book, Young Readers Edition: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets behind What You Eat, Pollan explains that Industrial Organic is food grown on large industrial size farms with all natural pesticides and no chemicals. It is sold in large supermarket chains, and one of the most common is Whole Foods. In 2006, 77 percent of UK (households) bought organic food. ven though organic food may be a tad more expensive, more people should eat organic food because it tastes better, …show more content…

People who eat food that is not organically grown are eating food that has either been processed or that has been grown with chemicals that could kill them. Industrial organic has changed over the years. For example, they now have organic tv dinners, but as Gene Kahn explained to Pollan, "behind every organic TV dinner or chicken stand acres of land that will no longer be doused with chemicals." (Chevat, 120) Just because they have tv dinners doesn’t mean that they are fake organic. If it is grown without chemicals it is organic. It is good that they found a way to make organic high fructose corn syrup. People who eat organic food eat it because they trust it and they know that is good for them. People have there reasons to trust organic food one of which is, “because it does not contain pesticide residues, GM ingredients or artificial additives, and because it contains more nutrients and vitamins than non-organic food.” (Melchett) Peter is saying that people trust organic food because it doesn’t have chemicals and it is all natural. There are some people who can’t afford to buy things that are grown organically. With all the work it takes to keep it chemical free and meet the demand it costs more, "Polyface Farm's eggs at $2.20 a dozen might be a better deal than supermarket eggs at $0.79 a dozen." (Chevat, 199) with all the work it takes to make the price is reasonable, but that doesn’t mean people can afford it. That is how organic food is safer and healthier than industrial

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In the corn section of The Omnivore's Dilemma the author, Michael Pollan, goes on a journey to follow the industrial food chain and on his journey he finds out that corn is in nearly everything we eat. Since it is fed to cows, salmon and other animal corn ends up in places we would not think of like hamburgers, milk and soda. In one of the chapters Pollan tells the readers that for every bushel of corn it cost one dollar more to produce it than to buy it. The abundance of corn has caused the price to go down, however farmers are still producing corn due to government subsidies, even though they necessarily won’t make a profit off of it. This in turn keeps farmers in business but not out of debt.

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In Chapters 8 and 9 of The Omnivore 's Dilemma, Pollan discovers what organic really means in an interesting way. Instead of reading about it like other people might do, he travels to farms and supermarkets. During his travels he comes across Big Organic, Industrial Organic, and other “organic” terms. Prior to reading these chapters, I did not realize that the government changed the idea of organic to meet the wants and needs of consumers. For example, some companies believe they are creating organic meat by feeding cows organic corn, but raise them under traditional conditions.

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The Industrial Organic Meal is good for you because it doesn’t use chemicals & contains more nutrients. In Michael Pollan’s book Omnivore's Dilemma on page 136 he says, “To grow the plants and animals that made up my meal, no pesticides found their way into any farmworker’s bloodstream, no nitrogen runoff seeped into the watershed, no soils were poisoned, no antibiotics were wasted, no government subsidy checks were written.” This quotes proves that the Industrial Organic meal is healthy for you & it’s healthy for you because no bad chemicals makes its way into the food you will be eating . The Industrial Organic meal is also healthy for you because it contains nutrients. In the Article Health Benefits of Organic Food the author writes, “Organic food growers & dairy farmers do not use any antibiotics in their process.”

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