Kent State University Comparative Analysis of Organic & Inorganic Food Discussion

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Go Organic
Logan Jacobs
Kent State University

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Our population is continuously on the rise causing a steadily increasing demand
for food. One of the biggest challenges farmers face today is trying to produce enough
crops to satisfy the rising population. Due to these steadily increasing demands, new
farming approaches have had to be invented which lead us to the development of
pesticides. This is called inorganic or farm-raised production. Inorganic farming has
pushed the modern farmer to search for better means of increasing productivity that has
led to the upscaling of chemical supplement use, pesticides, and other elements
(Thippeswamy, 2013). While this has been successful in leading us to an increase in
production, higher profits for farmers and lower prices of produce, this is often at the
expense of the people’s health, while at the same time; the quality of the soil is depleted
due to the continuous use of chemicals (Thippeswamy, 2013).
High Pesticide Content
Pesticides contain active ingredients and also ‘inert’ chemicals such as
preservatives, solvents, and surfactants which can contain toxic actions that are different
from the active ingredients (Blair et al., 2014). Pesticides are believed to cause other
chronic health effects. Different chemical classes present in pesticides affect the nervous
system. Experimental and epidemiology research proves that pesticides contribute to a
multitude of diseases such as obesity, hearing loss, diabetes and respiratory diseases
(Blair et al., 2014). Each year, the Department of Agriculture Pesticide Data Program
(DAPDP) conducts testing on thousands of pieces of organic and farm-raised produce
across the entire country for chemical residues (Rogers, 2016). In its 2014 report, it
revealed that 60% of the samples it tested had residues of pesticides.

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According to Lamichhane, et al., (2016) conventional pesticides are associated in
the recent past with challenges farmers are facing in maintaining farm yields. Although
such pesticides offer immense benefits to farmers, for instance, incre...


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