What exactly does it mean to have organic products? A simple
definition would be….anything in its true state where it hasn’t been tainted
with harmful things like pesticides.
Being honest, using pesticides and artificial fertilizers do
help, but here are quite a few disadvantages that will harm the product and
will harm us in the long run. Organic
can also mean “pure” which doesn’t only apply to how produce is grown, it can
also apply to the method in which it’s acquired or stock prices etc.
Basically, the more transparent your business is, the
better. So, here’s the process in which food travels to markets and such (using
fruit as an example).
Seems okay right? Well, actually, once you’ve studied the
process properly, it’ll seem different.
When farmers give their produce to the middleman, the
middleman gets to decide the price based on the season, demand, sales etc. And
not based on the farmer’s own input cost, effort and time. Also, with this,
there is more demand for produce when it is not the season. So, farmers would
work hard to grow the produce and when its time to hand it to the middleman,
only to get rejected.
Did you know that over 700 varieties of cotton in India have
been replaced by American cotton, which also brought in the use of toxic dyes?
Wow, how depressing.
So, basically the motive of this whole talk was to make us
think – do I know where all my food, clothes or really anything is coming from?
- Ishaal Abdul Azeez, Grade 7
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