Essay On Organic Farming

Based on the article from Encyclopedia Britannica, organic farming is also called organic gardening system of crop cultivation. It uses earth safe methods of fertilizing and keeping their produce away from bugs. Pesticides injure your health and they are not healthy for the environment. Organic methods, for example, cow manure, straight from the cow instead of a fertilizer with a lot of chemicals is better for the earth because cow manure is natural. The article "Organic Farming" in the journal The Alert Collector authored by Kelly Myer Polacek and Florian Diekmann, taught me much about, as it’s title says, organic farming. I learned that organic farming has been practiced for more than a hundred years. That means since the 1900s, or even later, organic farming methods have been applied to farms, making the environment, and the people healthier, because there are no pesticides involved.
A company was even formed to work on organic farming methods. Its name is IFOAM, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements. It helped make certification standards for production practices, processing, and labeling of organic farming. IFOAM defined contemporary organic agriculture as a “production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people.”
In this journal article, I also learned that organic farming was practice in 160 countries all over the world. Organic agriculture has expanded, so global publication spread too, being mostly spread from the 1990s and onward. This resulted in thousands of scholarly articles, books, newspaper, magazine articles and websites about organic farming, so even more people started to learn about the wonders of organic farming. The book Organic Manifesto authored by Maria Rodale t...

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...we humans created the problem with the environment, and only we can solve. We have to solve it, or nature will solve it for us.
In the last section of my book, the author talks about how we as a country need to pull together and toughen up, and to at least try to be organic, and buy organic produce and food when ever we can. Many farms use sewer sludge to fertilize their pastures, and some even feed dead cows to their live cows, according to the book. Our country has spread our bad habits around the world and less than one percent of the world’s farming land is organic. Less than one percent of the farming land in The United States is organic, but the organic farming land in Europe is four percent, better than the United States. The author states that to have more organic food in our country and world, we need to, as the citizens demand it, and fight for it.