Posted on March 12, 2010.
The increased availability of healthy food grown on the farm and sustainable agriculture A healthy diet is the result of sustainable farming systems that are farming methods and processes for the growing, harvesting and delivery of healthy foods to consumers while taking steps environmentally friendly agriculture.
The new generation of Americans are more aware of the harmful chemical additives, and environmental hazards of traditional commercial or industrial agriculture and food production. With the need to feed themselves and their children healthy food, this knowledge is causing a change in buying habits of food and the diet of Americans.
Much of the food we find in supermarkets today are grown, processed and sold as food additives harmful chemicals. These additives change the way food tastes, looks, and increases the shelf life of food.
To maximize profitability and production, large scale commercial animal feeding low doses of antibiotics to accelerate growth. This contributes to a national health problem of the growth of bacteria resistant to antibiotics in humans.
industrial farms, but sustainable systems often have harmful pesticides, fertilizers and antibiotics by products that finds its way into groundwater, rivers and streams. These residues cause harmful contamination of aquatic ecosystems and drinking water.
Although there is a growing awareness and a corresponding increase in sustainable agriculture, there is the need for large factory farms to maximize food production and profitability. In response to this demand by large-scale commercial plant, much of the world's largest companies are moving away from chemical petrochemical commodities in agricultural biotechnology. Since 1996, Monsanto and Hoechst (Germany) have changed their business plans to spin-off its industrial chemicals business and has since invested heavily in acquiring seed and agricultural biotechnology companies.
Sustainable farming systems intended for the production of crops without harming the environment and health and food products.
It includes a number of requirements: Soil fertility is maintained and improved continuously, the availability and quality of water protected and enhanced protection of biodiversity for agriculture, farm workers, and all Other factors in the chain of food production program aimed at minimizing the environmental impact on the discharge of waste and emissions of greenhouse gases.
Although there is no widely recognized certification body of sustainable food systems and agriculture, the other components, biological and bio-dynamic food and agriculture systems certification standards.
Certified Organic Food is the breeding result without the application of harmful pesticides, chemical fertilizers, contamination by human and industrial wastes, ionizing radiation, food additives, and not genetically modified. When animals are grown, they must be free of antibiotics and without the use of growth hormones.
Dynamic Organic food production is a more stringent level of food production from farming. It is both a philosophy and an art form of agriculture.
Demeter Association, with branches worldwide, is the certifying body for bio-dynamic agriculture. The certification standards are the highest level of sustainable agriculture achieve one of the lowest carbon footprints of any agricultural method.
Bio Dynamics takes a systems approach to agriculture agriculture, where each element of farm or action is considered in total as it affects others. The systems approach includes the use of organic sprays dynamics, nutrient retention, the drawings of crop rotations, weed control, pests, and recycling and composting organic waste. For breeding, it inc.
