why you should care
Chemicals from conventional farming practises inevitably remain in the soil, leaching into groundwater and ending up in or on foods. Animals also depend on agriculture, so they, too, end up consuming contaminated foods. The elimination of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and GMOs in farming is beneficial to plants and animals within the farm. Benefits of organic agriculture include:¹

• enhancing soil structures and conserving water
• controlling pests and diseases by natural methods, thus increasing yields and disease resistance
• encouraging development of self-supporting systems
• sustaining biodiversity
• preventing chemical accumulation up the food chain
• restoring the environmental balance

Organic agriculture methods help the soil to retain more nutrients, such as carbon and nitrogen, by having longer cropping seasons and more diversified crops. Chemicals from conventional methods have resulted in lake-choking algae blooms which has diverse effects on ecosystems.