Of course you would! And that's what Planet Organics delivers. There are so many benefits to going organic, here are four:

Simply put, organically grown produce tastes better. That's why so many of the finest resturaunts serve it. Conventional produce is grown on huge industrial farms and may be trucked for thousands of miles and then stored for several days before reaching the customer.

Organic farms are generally much smaller and family-owned. They sell their produce to local merchants and at farmer's markets. Because they sell all their produce locally, usually within a few days of picking it, they strive to deliver the varieties of produce that emphasize flavor over longevity.

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There is a wealth of information available about the dangers of pesticides to us and our environment. The hazards for human health include increased risk of cancer, reproductive problems, and neurological damage.

In January 1998, Consumer Reports (CR) concluded that organic food was far safer than non-organic. With respect to the health risk of pesticides on produce, CR wrote: "The government sets its limits (on pesticide exposure) as if people consume just one pesticide at a time - even though our tests, as well as the government's own monitoring, show that most produce has traces of several different pesticides. And it ignores other common sources of exposure, drinking water and home pesticides. How all these exposures might add up to affect health is uncertain."

Farm workers who are constantly exposed to pesticides may be the proverbial canary in the coal mine. CR states: "One third of pesticide-related illnesses in California involve farm workers. Studies show that farmers who work with pesticides get several kinds of cancer more often than the general public does."

A study by the Environmental Working Group examined 80,000 food samples which were tested by the EPA and the US Department of Agriculture between 1991 and 1995. The study showed that more than 1 million children younger than 5 eat food every day that is contaminated with pesticides at levels which exceed federal safety standards. The study focused on organophosphates, a class of pesticides known to cause permanent brain damage and neurological dysfunction.

Experts believe that children are especially susceptible to the effects of pesticide exposure because they consume more fruits and vegetables per pound of body weight than do adults and because their rapidly developing physiology leaves them more vulnerable to the effects of pesticides than an already physically mature adult.

Currently there are over 9,000 pesticides in use in the United States and the Environmental Protection Agency has studied and regulated approximately 30 of the 9,000 for potential health risks. The remaining 8,970 are found on fruits and vegetables, in drinking water, and in many household products with little or no knowledge about safe levels of exposure.

For more information on pesticides, visit:www.pesticideinfo.org.

In a 1998 study of organic produce, Consumer Reports stated: "Water pollution from agriculture is the chief reason that 40 percent of America's lakes, rivers, and estuaries are not clean enough for fishing or swimming."

The San Francisco Chronicle, in a 1999 report, wrote: "...pollution (is) worse now than 30 years ago." The culprits? "Oil and gas spilled on streets, pesticides from farm fields and backyard lawns, polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxin buried in the soil..."

Organic farming helps return our land and water to a healthy natural state which, in turn, protects our health and that of all other living things.