Organic?...Good or Bad
...t could make the child sick. So the use of organic food could offer an easy answer to this problem. Flavor is a big concern for consumers. Peter Hoffman, owner of the New York’s Restaurant Savoy and chairman of the Chef’s collaborative, agrees saying that, ”The difference is huge. When people taste asparagus or string beans grown in richly composted soil, they can’t get over the depth and vibrancy of the flavor.” When grown organically their is a much greater respect that the growers have for the crops since these growers are focused on the quality of the crops, not the quantity.. They usually don’t have to send their crops far away so they can afford to wait till they are really ripe before they send them a local market or grocery store. The large companies grow on a vast commercial plot so they don’t care about taste and ripeness but rather quantity. Since the large companies have to send their crops farther away, they need to pick their crops earlier in order to make sure they can get them to the grocery stores on time. Although organic farms only make up less than two percent of the nation’s food supply and take up less than one percent of it’s cropland, the market for organic food is growing by fifteen to twenty percent every year! That is five times faster than food sales in general. Nearly 40 percent of U.S. consumers now reach for something labeled organic. The inorganic foods still control the market but as you can see by the statistics the consumers are starting to see the good taste and quality “organic” benefits from a organically grow product. Critics have said that perhaps the deadliest risk in our modern food supply is E. coli. Critics also say that since organic food farms use cow manure to fertilize food crops E. coli should have an effect on the product, since manure is a primary hiding place for E. coli. Although this statement is true, there are no links to organic foods being the cause of E.coli illness. For a product to truly be labeled as an organic product, under the new USDA guidelines, means that meat, dairy products and fertilized crops are not allowed to be raised with cows who eat anything but organic feed. Farmers are also allowed to vacc...