sbc carthwatch organic good for you and the planet! organic farming uses fewer pesticides reduces dietary exposure on produce natural processes than chemicals to manage and prevent pests and this difference in management significantly reduces risks of dietary and environmental exposure to 1.2% of cropland used to grow fruits and vegetables to organic production is needed to make an impact on dietary exposure to harmful pesticides pests with chemical sprays and used nitrogen fertilizer to manage soil global warming potential were lower for the organic system research adds to the growing body of science that shows that organic production can be an important solution for climate change mitigation organic higher cognitive function is linked to eating organic food as a child brain development and cognition is influenced by environmental factors and the most formative time occurs before birth and study recently published in the journal environmental pollution found that organic food intake during childhood was associated study examined 1,298 mother-child pairs and the children were ages 6-11 years old between childhood food sources and cognitive fluid intelligence and higher working memory greenhouse gas emissions lower in organic wheat production than conventional organic farming emits fewer greenhouse gases and has lower global consisted of winter wheat under a five-year rotation with leguminous long-term organic management reduces soil-borne diseases and increases crop production biologia adds to the growing body of evidence showing organic farming improves microbial conditions in the soil that study compared microbiomes in agricultural soil under ten years of organic management versus conventional and manure improved soil fertility and carbon sequestration organic soils also exhibited more beneficial microbes that convert results suggest that long-term organic management not only increases the risk of plant diseases by altering the diversity of the microbiome in ways that increases beneficial microorganisms
