Why Buy Organic Meat & Dairy?
Eating fewer animal products is a good choice
for us and for our environment.
when we support farms that ethically take
care of the animals they raise in
a more humane way, we provide healthier
choices for our families and
support healthy and ecological neighborhoods.
Look for farm products that meet these criteria:
NO ANTIBIOTICS, NO MAD COwS
HORMONES, GMO FEED
The practice of feeding cattle the ground-up remains
OR OTHER DRUGS
of other cows appears to cause mad cow disease, or bovine
Animals raised organically cannot be fed antibiotics, spongiform encephalopathy, which destroys the central
genetically modified foods, or the bovine human growth nervous system and brain, and can pass to humans who eat
hormone (rbGH) or other drugs. The animals receive certified the cows. In humans, it has a long latency period, and causes
100 percent organic feed and a wider range of nutrients than Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
those raised in factory farms. This practice is outlawed in organic production.
Organically raised animals have been shown to be sig-
nificantly healthier than their factory-raised counterparts. The
MORE HUMANE TREATMENT
products from these animals carry a certified organic label. Free-range and ranch-raised animals are not confined.
They spend much of their time outdoors in the fresh air.
Factory farms treat animals like commodities, holding
them in tightly confined pens. Often, they never move more
than a few feet their whole lives.
RECYCLE MANURE
Sustainable farms use their manure productively as or-
ganic fertilizer, recycling its nutrients.
Industrial farms produce so much manure that it be-
comes a larger health risk, contaminating wells and water-
ways with E. coli and other pathogens.
FEwER CHEMICALS
Organic agriculture uses crop rotation and other tech-
niques to improve soil fertility, instead of synthetic chemical
pesticides and fertilizers. Organic livestock are not fed food
containing these chemicals, which concentrate in animal fat,
so our exposure to such toxins is reduced.
Farmers working on organic farms also are exposed to
fewer chemicals. Organic farming safeguards groundwater,
topsoil, habitats and neighborhood health.
EMBRACE DIVERSITY
Small, sustainable farms tend to raise a wider variety of
livestock; industrial farms rely more upon monocultures. e W
support a healthy gene pool by purchasing diverse foods.
USE RESOURCES wISELY
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