Why would anyone choose organic gardening? Besides being a lot healthier, it is a whole lot cheaper than the alternative. Unfortunately there are a handful of very powerful multi national corporations that don’t want you to know that and they have politicians on both sides in their pocket. Now why is that so important to them?
It has been proven and well documented since the early 1900’s that plant diseases and insect infestations are practically eliminated whenever organic gardening and farming methods are put into use. Furthermore people who eat food that has been cultivated in this manner are far less prone to disease and sickness as those who don’t. (Source: “An Agricultural Testament” by Sir Albert Howard, Other India Press 1940).
Through the use of green manuring and composting there is little need of other amendments required for fertilization of your garden. Once your garden or farm has been successfully converted to organic principles and humates along with mycorrhizal populations ans soil microbes have been restored to the soil, there is no longer a dependency on having to purchase fertilizers in order to grow.
Powerful Multi-Nationals Want you to Depend on Fertilizers. Why?
Their goal is to keep you ignorant and enslaved to having to repurchase their seeds, fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. In spite of the fact that it is destroying our environment, altering our DNA and propagating and even creating new disease.
The fact that organic farming is a threat to their well being which is why they are busy pursuing a multi-prong attack from suing organic farmers at every opportunity to lobbying for legislation that increase regulations and operating costs for commercial organic producers and family farms.
These corporations have successfully lobbied to legally “recycle” toxic waste that would normally cost them millions to dispose of. How do they recycle it? They put it in the fertilizer you use in your garden and lawns! The EPA has written the regulations making it perfectly legal while giving them exemption from having to list the ingredients on the packaging!
Before you write me off , Take a few minutes and enter the search phrase “Toxic Waste in Fertilizers” into your favorite search engine. After your head stops spinning and you start to process what you have learned first hand, go and get a copy of the book “Fateful Harvest” by Duff Wilson, Harper-Collins Publishers 2001. This is the true story Patty Martin, the courageous mayor of a Quincy, Washington that put herself and her family on the line to expose the deadly secret of the fertilizer companies. Then ask yourself, Why haven’t I ever heard of this?
Do you need any further reason to start your own organic garden?
The question you must ask however is the cumulative effects of repeated fertilization. These toxins have been used year after year in for crop fertilization, home gardens and by lawn care companies. You may very well be eating it, walking through it or otherwise exposed to these in your daily activities
Source Cited: Report by Matthew Shaffer, Toxics Policy Advocate CALPIRG Charitable Trust, The State PIRGs WASTE LANDS: THE THREAT OF TOXIC FERTILIZER
For those in the Memphis area. Next time you hear “Lemme kill your weeds” you might want to ask yourself what else is being killed in the process?
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Agreed, there are fertilizers on the market that contain toxic material. But this article paints a very black and white picture, and Nature, which is what this boils down to, is not black or white. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for organic gardening over conventional reactive-based agricultural practices, but I’m hard pressed to label ALL chemical fertilizers as “bad”. Are organic practices the “holy grail” of gardening? Are they the answer to all of our agricultural worries? Are they the solution to all of our soil fertility problems? I think not. Are they a step in the right direction? It seems that way.
Personally, I tend to gravitate towards the emerging field of “biological farming”, which recognizes and honors the microbes in our soil, but also understands that not all fertilizers created by corporations are toxic and deadly, and thus have their place in a farmer’s tool shed.
Stop looking at the world and agricultural practices as black and white! This mentality only creates struggle and separation. Instead, strive for nutrient-density in your farming and gardening, not just organic, and you’ll position yourself in line with the next evolution of plant, animal, and human health.
Thanks for your comment. Fertilizers are not required to label ingredients so it is hard to differentiate between good and bad ones.
Of course and that’s why it’s incredibly important to do research on all products that you purchase/endorse. If you’re willing to dig for information (which is unfortunate that we have to go that far), you can usually find out just what goes into a fertilizer. Or you learn to work directly with the manufacturers, come to know and trust their values and vision, and then rely on them to do due diligence on the products they offer.
I was under the impression that biological farming, microbes and nutrient density WERE the very essence of organic gardening and farming practices.
Chemicals, undeniably destroy these vital components and are detrimental soil fertility. I thought that the point of the article was not a condemnation of of all fertilizers, but a condemnation toxic waste (Which Federal Law requires to be disposed of safely) used in fertilizers without any warning labels for the consumer.
Without the efforts of Patty Martin and others who have brought this issue to light, no amount of research or due diligence would have ever led the consumer to find that toxic waste, heavy metals and radioactive materials were in these products. I think that the “values and vision” of these fertilizer manufacturers is clearly evident by putting the health of their employees, farmers and the general public (who end up eating it) at risk for the sake of a fast buck.