and your medicine your food" - Hippocrates
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Choosing Life With Organic Products
No serious investigation into nutrition can be made without a thorough knowledge of the principles of soil health and its relationship to the food it produces. The human immune system and the plant immune system are both ultimately dependent on the soil. This is common sense.
The true farmers get out there, put their hand in the soil, smell it, let it sift through their fingers, see how it holds water, run some tests on organic matter, mineral balance, plant sugar content and pH. They understand that the soil is the life source of the plant. They understand that the remineralization of the soil and its microbial life is of outmost importance. They understand that the soil, not the plant, needs treatment. They understand that soil is a living substance.
The health of the soil’s microbial life depends upon the minerals in the soil, and so does the most important ingredient in plant, animal, and human biochemistry: the enzyme. An enzyme is a large protein molecule, containing vitamins, amino acids, and trace minerals, such as zinc, selenium, manganese and copper. All metabolic processes at every level of the cell depend upon the life-sustaining action of enzymes.
Modern demands and regulations are increasingly serving the convenience, cost-effective, long-shelf-life demands of food processors, regardless of nutritional quality. Our modern food supply is now bleached, refined, chemically preserved, pasteurized, sterilized, hydrogenated, artificially colored, defibered, highly sugared, highly salted, synthetically fortified, canned, exposed to hundreds of new man-made chemicals.
People talk about cleaning up our environment. But the greatest mistake would be to rely on clean-up techniques that give us a false security to go on living in our polluting ways. A little bit of poison is poison. On the long run is it not more important to stop producing this environmental poison? Given the state of the world, we know that our nutrition is always going to be sub-optimal, at least for a few generations to come.
By paying a fair price for clean, healthy, organically grown produce gives the organic grower what he deserves and keeps the honest soil-based farmer on the land. Where you have a choice, don’t just consider the money when it comes to investing in the food your body is made from. Choose life. It’s like making a choice between depositing a blank check in your health account or starting your RRSPs to better health today and for generations to come. We need to look to nature for alternatives instead of refusing to take notice. As we work together to help nature become cleaner, and our air, water and soil quality is restored, chances are good that humankind will have a better place to live.
Organic Farmers in New Brunswick
Here is the database to find certified organic farmers: www.acornorganic.org/pages/databaseregional.html