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Why bother with organic gardening if you can just spray pesticides and kill the competition for your home grown food?
Pesticides create havoc in our bodies for years after exposure. Because they are stored in fats, they work like a time-released product, slowly leaking out.
Organic gardening helps us to exert some control over how much we are affected - brain, metabolism, reproductive system - and much more.
Pesticides are sprayed everywhere, all the time. Parks, schools, grocery stores, office buildings, golf courses - avoiding these chemicals (which include insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and bactericides), is impossible.
However, if you go to all the trouble of growing your own food, you can decide not to add poisonous chemicals to your yard or gardening containers.
Not only can you avoid ingesting pesticides, but you can avoid inhaling them as well.
It is also a good idea to ask your neighbors to let you know when they are spraying in their yards so you can make sure your windows are tightly shut.
Pesticides were originally formulated as nerve gases used to kill enemies in times of war. As with many products developed for war, we "benefit" from subsequent peacetime uses.
The worst thing about pesticides is how they upset our "happy chemicals" in our brains. The feel good hormones serotonin, and dopamine do not function properly. Even our motor controls and other delicate processes are affected by pesticides. Hormone balance is destroyed, leading to high cholesterol, and cancers.
We are surrounded by warnings of our decades of oblivion as to the results of chemical use in our food industries.
With gardening choices, you can say "Not In My Backyard" and mean it! Information on organic gardening is easy to find.
We do not know exactly to what degree our body chemistry has been compromised by eating non-organically grown food. However, we can enjoy important health benefits from applying organic gardening basics in our own backyard.
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