Eat Organic Foods
Organic celery is WAY better than conventional celery
I’ve never liked raw celery sticks! I’m sorry, but celery as a vegetable has never really excited me at all.
There I’ve said it! Yes, a healthy eating expert that doesn’t like a particular vegetable is shocking, I know.
I’ve always found celery sticks to be tasteless and I used to make an effort to eat them, but not before covering them with a lot of salt to try to give them some taste (which really is not the best idea).
I will buy celery to cook. I make a delicious and simple meat pie and I love adding loads of vegetables in my pie and cooked celery is one of my favourites!
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Quizz: Are you still buying as much organic food as before the recession?
As must know the organic food movement has been HUGE for a sold decade now.
The organic movement has been so strong because consumers are more in touch with what they eat and how it’s cultivated. Contrarily to conventional faming, organic farming strictly limits the use of artificial chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Antibiotics for animals are kept to an absolute minimum. Instead organic farming emphasizes farming methods such as crop rotation to keep the soil healthy and natural pest-control systems. Genetically modified crops are forbidden. Organic bodies also demand more space for animals and higher welfare standards.
The organic movement went from a grass route movement to a commercial movement since now you can buy StonyField Farm Organic products at Wal-Mart (the big daddy of conventionalism)!
In the past few years, the sale of organic foods has become equivalent to several billion dollars each year in countries like the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France and Australia. In the U.S. alone organic foods accounted for (before the financial crash) 3.5 per cent of U.S. food sales in 2008!
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