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Why is local organic agriculture important?

As we all know, shopping at your local chain supermarket is at least half as expensive as shopping at your local health food store. Why is this? The partial answer is that the real costs of industrial food production are hidden from the consumer.

Among the costs of our culture’s embrace of highly mechanized, fossil fuel-driven, chemically saturated Mega-farming, are:

• Topsoil depletion.
• Groundwater contamination.
• The decline of family farms.
• Continued neglect of the living and working conditions for farm laborers.
• The disintegration of economic and social conditions in rural communities.
• Skyrocketing cases of preventable diseases linked to high chemical intake and decreased nutritional value of food.

As it stands today, industrial agricultural practices are not sustainable. Reestablishment of localized, organic food production is vital to humanity’s health and survival.