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By:
Dr. Rafael S. Barrozo
OPTA-Executive Director
What is Organic Farming?
• Organic farming is the
production
of
crops
and livestock without
the use of synthetic
chemicals
and
in-
organic fertilizers.
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What is conventional/ modern agriculture?
• Modern
agriculture
uses
pesticides,
herbicides,
fungicides, rodenticides and harmful chemicals to
produce the food we eat.
• The food produced from conventional agriculture is
harmful to human health because they contain
residues of chemicals and in-organic fertilizers.
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• Organic agriculture is healthy for the farmers who
produces our foods to the environment because it
avoids poisonous chemicals for consumers, who eat
the organic food.
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Organic Farming creates “Living Soil”
• Full of life with microorganism, fungi, worms and
termites.
• Very rich in macro and micro elements, trace
elements, and vital energy
• Very rich in organic matter
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Modern Chemical Farming creates “Dead Soil”
• Acidic soils with few microorganisms
• Lacking in micro elements, trace elements, poor
vitality
• Almost O organic matter
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What are the harmful effects of chemical
fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides,
rodenticides, suicide?
• In August 2000, a research team in Holland
published findings which showed that men whose
jobs gave them a high exposure to pesticides had
significantly lower sperm counts.
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• Couple of years earlier, a Danish study found that a
sample of organic farmers had sperm counts 50%
higher than the national average.
• The Economic and Social Research Council, USDA,
published a report in April 2000 saying that a
combination of high tech crops, pollution and soil
erosion are affecting the intelligence of millions of
people.
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• High yielding rice and wheat, the so called “green
revolution crops” developed in Los Baños, the
Philippines, are now named as one of the causes of
brain damage especially impaired intellect in poor or
third world countries.
• These crops, produced under modern agriculture
techniques using large doses of pesticides,
herbicides, and fertilizers are being blamed for
intelligence problems because they do not contain
essential brain nutrients such as iodine, iron and
vitamin A.
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• A decrease in brain size has been reported among
poor communities in Brazil over 30 years.
• “We evolved bigger brains at the cost of a smaller
digestive system requiring high quality food” says the
report.
• “If
food
supplies
contaminated.
become
poor
quality
or
This might favor humans with a
bigger gut or larger digestive system but with a
resultantly smaller brain.”
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• This
phenomenon
has
forced
the
Philippine
government to make laws, RA 8976, the “Food
Fortification Law” requiring all rice, sugar, cooking oil
and flour sold in the market to be fortified with iron
in the form of ferrous sulfate – a synthetic
micronutrient derived from scrap iron.
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• According
to
Hawley’s
Condensed
Chemical
Dictionary, one hazard of ingesting large amount of
ferrous sulfate is that it causes “stomach disorders.”
• A Stanford University study of 496 patients newly
diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease suggests that inhome use of pesticides increases the rich of the
neurological disorder by 70%.
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• A study at Emory University in Atlanta, confirmed a
connection
between
Parkinson’s
disease
and
pesticides after laboratory rats developed Parkinson’s
like symptoms upon prolonged exposure to the
organic pesticide rotenone.
(Neurology Reviews,
August 2000; Nature Neuroscience, December 2000.)
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• For many years, pesticides were studied mainly to
determine their potential to cause cancer. Recently,
researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New
York has found that the most widely used class of
indoor insecticides is a probable hormone disrupter
that may interfered with reproductive functions and
possibly contribute to cancer.
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• Thousands of people in Florida have reported
suffering health problems following aerial spraying of
the insecticide Malathion against Mediterranean fruit
flies attacking food crops. The victims have filed a
class-action have sent against Cheminova Inc. the
manufacturer of Malathion, which is related to the
nerve gases used in World War II.
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• Modern agriculture or Chemical farming has damaged
our environment by contaminating our rivers, lakes,
drinking water and clouds forming rain.
These
poisonous chemicals has killed not only insects but
also fish, birds, useful small animals, microorganisms
and some plants.
These agricultural chemicals is
killing humans too.
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• Without microorganisms, the soil, will be lacking in
other micronutrients needed by the body such as
calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, cooper, selinium,
manganese, vit. C, vit. A, vit. B6, Folecin, vit. E,
potassium, etc.
• There are 23 elements needed for human health that
come from the soil.
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• Plants convert the 23 elements, along with carbon,
hydrogen, and oxygen into food nutrients – amino
acids,
carbohydrates,
essential
fats,
vitamins,
minerals, enzymes, and fiber.
• A deficiency or absence of even one element
produces deficient food, which can result in health
problems in the body.
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• Dr. Albrecht and Dr. Allison of Missouri University with
the funding by the International Harvester Company
conducted experiments on animals using plants
grown in soil deficient in the 23 elements especially
the trace elements.
• The food produced on this soil was also deficient in
the trace elements or nutrients.
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• The cattle fed with plants grown in poor soil
developed certain deficiency diseases. The blood of
these sick cattle was analyzed and was found
deficient in trace elements.
• The missing trace elements was supplied or added to
the soil and then the animals were fed with food
grown on such enriched soil. The cattle recovered
from their fever and disease.
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• Dr. George H. Earp-Thomas wrote in 1950 his
discoveries on the relationship between poor soil and
human and animal diseases.
• He concluded that “There is only one disease, and
that is MALNUTRITION.”
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• The body cells will die, “atrophy away” if not supplied
with constant nourishments.
Many soils can no
longer produce foods adequately supplied with all the
essential factors. The more you eat of deficient food,
regardless of your health, the more you hasten your
decline – if the trace elements are lacking.
• Such symptoms fill medical books with fancy names,
but here is one name which covers practically all of
them: MALNUTRITION.
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• Drs. Albrecht-Allison conducted experiments and
with organic farming produced an organic food
that would meet the needs of the medical
profession, that would have all of or more than
the 32 factors and 23 elements well proportioned
for their use.
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• The organic food produced from organic crops was
richer in protein than meat, carried all the needed
amino acids, a full and liberal supply of vitamins A, C,
K, the B complex, some E, F, G and P.
• The trace minerals iron, copper, zinc, calcium,
phosphorus, cobalt, the factors Inositol, folic aid,
Choline – all essential for good health.
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• With the discovery of the health benefits derived
from rich sail coming from organic farming, the
nature doctor, or now called naturopathic doctors, are
able to supply proper nutrition to sick persons and
are able to heal their diseases, by giving organically
grown foods.
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• Organic Agriculture do not use pesticides. Because of
this, the food produced are now called “Power Charged”
foods. Organic foods contain more phyto-chemicals that
are called “Medicinal Foods.”
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Scientists from the Department of Food Science and
Technology of the University of California-Davis
discovered that fruits and vegetables grown organically
can reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer and other
diseases. (Journal of Food Chem. 57(5), 2003).
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• According to these scientists, crops grown organically
contain more polyphenolics than conventional crops
possibly because they are not sprayed with any
pesticides.
• These results showed that berries and corn grown
organically
contained
up
to
58
percent
more
polyphenolics, strawberries, 19% more, blackberries,
58% more and all of them have higher content of
ascorbic
acid
(Vit
C)
and
other
antioxidants,
flavonoids and bioflavonoids.
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• Livestock like chicken, pigs and cattle, grown in
chemical-industrial animal farming systems are also
sources of chemicals harmful to health.
• The animals grown like sardines in unhealthy animal
farms are fed and injected with synthetic chemicals
to force them to grow fast and survive the
pathogenic microorganisms that abounds. These are
antibiotics, growth hormones, steroids, synthetic
vitamins and minerals.
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• When humans eat these animals, they also ingest
these synthetic chemicals and whatever disease
these animals have.
• Because meat produced in animal farms are too
unhealthy, the Harvard Medical School in its newly
constructed Food Pyramid or Dietary Guide warned
that meat should be taken in small quantities, and
that Red Meat should be taken only occasionally.
(Paminsan-minsasn lang)
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Today, Oncologists from the Harvard Medical
School recommend to cancer patients to:
• Change lifestyle
• Become vegetarians or avoid
red meat
• Eat lots of organic food
• Avoid eating at FAST FOOD
Restaurant like McDonalds
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• Because the foods we eat today lack nutritional
content, children and adults, no matter how they eat
are “starved” and tend to eat more then necessary,
resulting into: obesity, diabetes, cardio-vascular and
heart
diseases,
and
chronic
and
degenerative
diseases including Parkinson’s.
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The best way to Health is by eating only
Organic Food.
• You can avoid disease by eating only “Certified
Organic” food.
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The Organic Producers Trade Association, OPTA is
also an accredited Organic Certification Agency by
the Department of Agriculture. OPTA-COP performs
Organic Farm Inspection and Certifications.
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Interested farmers and food producers
who want to learn Organic Farming and
Organic Food Processing can contact
OPTA, Philippines at:
• 21 Makaturing Street, Bgy. Manresa,
Quezon City, Philippines 1115
Tel. (632) 363-6816
Fax. (632) 415-3636
Cellphone: 0919-7381457
E-mail: [email protected]
website: www.optaphil.com
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