Avoids
chemicals
Organic
farming avoids the use of chemicals – these are added to the non-organic
production cycle for a number of reasons:
(I) to boost yield – e.g. by
preventing disease or by speeding up growth;
(II) to feed the plant in order to
adopt characteristics such as colour;
(III) to control pests who might attack
the plants. It should be noted that none of these actually benefit the consumer
in terms of creating more nutritious, or even tasty, food. Organic farming has
proven that the desirable elements of these techniques, such as disease and
pest control, can be achieved to a large extent without the use of chemicals.
It is also clear from this that organic farming is going to be more expensive
at the production stage than non-organic farming.
