Future Generation
Children receive four times the exposure than an adult to at least eight widely used cancer-causing pesticides in food. The food choice you make now will impact your child's health in the future.
Farm Workers Health
A National Cancer Institute study found that farmers exposed to herbicides had a greater factor of six, than non-farmers of contracting cancer. Field workers suffer the highest rates of occupational illness in the state. An estimated 1 million people are poisoned annually by pesticides.
Water Quality
Organic farming never uses toxic and persistent pesticides. This helps keep water, and soil clean.
Organic agriculture reduces pollution of groundwater.