It is usually useful to step back and look at things from an objective viewpoint, particularly when we are personally concerned. Making and sustaining an organic way of living means we are in the ‘center’ of that activity, daily. Among all of the other stuff occurring in our day to day lives, as moms, also we are making an attempt to develop new habits for our family with reference to their health and well-being. So I assumed it might be useful for us all, myself included, to just take a step or 2 back and revisit the simple questions and reasons that explain why we are following an organic approach to life to start with. Hence who picks up the energy tab, when petrochemicals are evaded? Where does the energy come from? The sun. To the limit the farm land manufacturing your food didn't use the raft of petrochemical manure, herbicides and drugs, and therefore the employees didn't breathe carcinogenic compounds, and so the land’s fertility and difficulty weren't compromised, then the advantage of organic food remains indirect and overtly invisible. [Read more...]