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The disadvantages of organic foods

At the moment organic foods are too expensive when compared to other food products that use pesticides and genetic engineering, because of crop failures since farmers cannot use any chemicals like pesticides. Since larger companies have bought into the Organic it is overselling and being treated more like a brand then what it should be a way of life, because corporations are just going to use it for their greedy desires and inflate prices up to 50% when compared to non organic products.



There is not a real variety, because the organic food market is still quite small and still growing. Organic food is not that much more nutritional, then only difference is that it doesn't contain pesticides, no food coloring and there are no preservatives. Organic foods are also going to have great difficulty in meeting greater demands from the natural commercial habits. Because organic food is controlled by the natural cycles and there is more care about the soil in the future when there is more demand for organic food products the ability to meet the demand is going to be a chronic problem, since there is less yield per acre for each crop that is organically grown.

Organic food might be more nutritious, but in this world pesticides, antibiotics, genetic engineering are necessary for things like ridding the world of hunger or the high demands of food products.

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