Seniors have been living long enough to distinguish a fad from a real cause. I have had my share of fads, I should know, I was once a flower baby—a hippie, if you call it that—and I am not an ounce ashamed of it. My last fad would be the cleansing diets or liver flushing for some, in an attempt to adapt a somewhat healthy lifestyle, however I was quick to drop that one as I realized I won’t be able to make to another 10years if I keep on “cleansing” my ever resistant body. See? I still have some sense in me!
The first time I ever heard of the word organic, I almost fell off my chair. I whined to myself, “Oh no, not again. Not another fad..” that was me a week after the cleansing diet fiasco. So you could just imagine how adamant I was not to even pick up and read an article about “going organic” or anything with the word “organic” in it. That was me rebelling against fad.
What actually brought me around was a seminar I was able to attend which tackled how little things affect the world as a whole. Profound, but if you were there, you would have realized the little choices we make in life have an effect far greater than we could ever imagine. Just simply forgetting to bring your reusable bag with you and opting to use paper bags while shopping means one less tree to absorb pollution. You may not have intentionally cursed the ill-fated tree but just because you have gotten lazy in remembering the reusable shopping bag, the tree suffered.
I try not to be overly emotional about it however, if you take some time to think of all those floods, earthquake, tsunami along with other natural disasters that have been happening around us, going organic really makes sense and may even be the only way to go.
Going organic, in a way, supports reviving chemically-dead soil—and they be many! It promotes healthy farming by way of organic farming such as composting, crop rotation and natural pest control. I put emphasis on the word “revive” as I consider our soil as badly damaged, if not beyond repair. Futhermore, organic farming eliminates water pollution since crops are cultivated naturally and without the use of chemicals which can eventually seep in to water reserves.
Ethical. That is one good word associated to being organic. Ethical and responsible, I say. Why? It is because going organic encourages you to respect other living things too, animals and plants alike. Commercially-raised farm animals are often subjected to abuse and cruelty and in my honest opinion, it shouldn’t be like that at all. Animals are to be respected too.
It promotes local produce too, if you must know since organic produce has shorter shelf life and won’t survive long hauls and did I say going organic is healthy?
