Is Buying Organic Food Really Better?

We’ve all been at the store looking for celery stalks. We see the non-organic brand and they look just fine. We go to the next counter over marked “Organic!” and we notice that the celery doesn’t look quite as fresh and it costs more money, sometimes way more. For those who have recently undergone “Alternative Cancer Therapy” as I did 39 years ago, you probably were told to make fresh fruits and vegetables about 80% of your diet and eat them raw if you can. Oh, and buy the Organic Food if you can…

Here’s why I buy Organic Food

It was 1974 and I was at the Mayo Clinic for treatment of stage 3 lymph system cancer. I had just had three surgeries totaling about ten hours and had an abdominal zipper long enough to crawl out of. Just before taking chemo therapy, a friend told me about the Oasis of Hope Hospital in Tijuana and encouraged me to go. Believe it or not, I left the Mayo Clinic and headed south to Tijuana. My family was not very happy with me… Before I left, they gave me a diet sheet and told me to buy mostly raw fruits and vegetables from “Farmer’s Markets.” Sure. I lived in Minnesota where the ground is frozen about 8 months out of the year. And soon, companies like Monsanto were adding all kinds of chemicals to foods and later even genetically engineering foods. The word on the street was, “BUY ORGANIC FOOD!”

Today, 39 years later, the prices on Organic Food are coming down.

This is the best news of all. Large grocery store chains like Safeway or Vons, carries their own organic brand called “O” brand. When I reach for a product, I look around on the shelf or in the cabinet for the “O” brand. The prices, while a bit higher, are usually very reasonable. Listen, we vote with our dollars. If we buy Organic Food, companies will farm it and market it. If we don’t, they won’t.

We vote every single day by buying Organic Food!

We vote with our dollars for Organic farming