Absolutely. When someone tastes an organic tomato next to a regular, commercially grown tomato, the first thing they say is, “Wow!” The difference is amazing. The organic tomato has a natural lusciousness, it’s succulent, it’s juicy, and it’s sweeter. There’s a sweeter taste to it.
It’s a system that replenishes the soil. It takes into account every aspect of growth of the animals that are raised on that property. Everything is utilized. The animals are utilized to fertilize the soil, the soil is replenished on an ongoing basis. The crops are rotated, the cattle are moved, or the animals are moved to different places in the ecosystem that’s created.
If a food is certified organic, it is labeled as certified organic. Otherwise you may not know. For example, a lot of farmers may grow food organically. You have to get to know them for example at some of the farmer’s markets. You won’t always know because they aren’t certified organic. It cost a lot to be certified organic.
Eating organic foods is considered a healthy choice because you’re not dealing with pesticides, herbicides, genetic modification of the foods. It is pure food growing, in healthier soils. It’s done in a way that where the crops are rotated, and this allows the soils to become replenished.
Organic food is basically unadulterated food. We have an informal definition of organic food, which is kind of “natural”, and we have a legal definition of organic food, certified organic. What’s important in organic food is that there are no added hormones, like bovine growth hormones, which can contribute to disease, and that we don’t use synthetic and chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, and any other types of additives that are not natural in organic food.
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