What Are Organic Foods?
What are organic foods? What's different about them?
Organic grain and produce is:
- grown without synthetic pesticides, chemical fertilizers, or sewage sludge
- grown with minimal use of natural pesticides
- not genetically engineered
- not irradiated
- shipped and handled without fumigants and pesticides
Organically raised livestock and poultry are:
- given organically grown feed
- not fed materials such as plastic, sawdust, excrement, or the renderings of animals
- not doused in pesticides
- not dosed with hormones or antibiotics
- given access to pasture
Organic processed foods:
- are made from organic ingredients
- generally have fewer and less unhealthy additives than conventional processed foods
- have no genetically engineered ingredients
- are processed with methods that avoid solvents and most synthetic additives