Organic
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Organic food is classified as food products that have not undergone any modern processing, these include the use of pesticides or fertilizers, or enhanced genetically. With no artificial production, these foods have been suggested to be more health friendly, due to the non-involvement of synthetic materials now used in much of the food produce we purchase today. Through our artificial creation of food products we have manufactured a large part of our food industry. However, natural, organic food still remains, becoming an integral part of the food industry in Australia and throughout the world.
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Benefits, Sustainability, Impacts, Food Types and Research
Foods such as fruit, vegetables, meats, fish and poultry can be classified, if the right processes have been used as organic foods. These foods are largely structured as the staple foods in many of the diets of people around the world. However, these foods many also be processed chemically or genetically.
The Australian organic food industry is booming, however, a common issue often raised when talking about organic food is sustainability. Currently worth 200-250 million dollars domestically, the industry is growing in demand.
In order to sustain the farming of organic products, many efforts to preserve the environment must be arranged to ensure the effects on the landscape will not lead to risks to local fauna and residents and provides a suitable environment for the products.
To be classified as ‘organic-certified produce’, a product must be determined to have been grown, harvested, stored and transported without the use of chemicals, pesticides or irradiation. Through excessive use of chemicals in modern farming, the effects on the environment have showed leading to a decline in soil salinity. Organic farmers are hard to minimise soil and environment damage in order to maintain rich, fertile soil for future produce.
Through the industrialisation agriculture, much of the conventional farming approaches were forced out of production. However, the cleanliness and through the use of natural growth, the quality of organic foods leads to benefits in both health and overall diet.
Organic food is free of any additives; its production takes less energy than conventional farming.
The organic industry is built on the hard work of small farmers and provides them with support to continue production. Most producers are small, independent farmers that depend on the produce they harvest, without it they would surely struggle.
Many people buy organic produce because they are concerned about the use of pesticides, antibiotics or other chemical residues in food.