I'm organic crazy!
Why isn't everyone? Organic food tastes better and is
better for the environment. C'mon, y'all, let's support organic farmers of the world by buying organic produce when you can. Or start your own organic garden in your backyard. I have one. It's so easy. No work - just put the seeds in, or buy your organic seedlings from the store, and watch your plants grow and yield your very own produce! 
I also have a compost pile. I just throw in my kitchen scraps
(vegetable stuffs, no animal meats but eggshells are ok),
turn it once in a while, and miraculously this beautiful black stuff turns out. No stench. No complaints from neighbors or anything. And totally free. You'll never think of buying fertilizers ever again. Who wants to use fertilizers any way? Intensive agriculture has so depleted the many minerals in our soil, and returning a few by dumping NPK ain't the way to go, folks. Organic gardening is!....
We need MINERALS!!!
If we keep on with the agribusiness way, more and more essential minerals will be depleted with only a few added back; then
how are we ourselves going to get the minerals we need in our diet? Think of it as a selfish thing to do. We need minerals. The plants we eat can't create minerals -- they get the minerals from the soil. If there ain't no minerals there, the plants don't get them and we don't get them! Organic farming now, everyone! For the sake of humanity......
Organic Rice, Anyone?
Yes, organic Thai rice is available too now. There's a Thai company whose organic rice is certified by international
organic standard. I'm not related to them in any way and just got the information from the TMG group where someone posted about them. But since they're supplying us with organic Thai rice, I figure I would lend them support by putting their name here. If y'all see their organic rice sold anywhere, try to lend them your support by buying their organic rice. The company's name is "Nakorn Luang Ka Kao".....
While we're on the subject, let me add that even though Thai people now eat white rice, BROWN RICE used to be what people ate. I know a lady who's now in her 40's; she told me when she was growing up in the countryside in Thailand, she ate brown rice - a lot of times sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds! I grew up in Bangkok on white rice, but now I mixed brown and white rice together, with the majority being brown rice. Also, I don't use that electric rice cooker
thing. Rice should be cooked in a clay pot, on regular flame with a sprinkle of sea salt. Try it and you'll never go back to eat white rice from electric cooker again!
Organic Thai Food!
Organic...Moo...Moo...Milk!
That takes care of the vegetables, eggs and dairies. Now let's get on to the meaty stuff.....In natural food stores in this country (USA) you can also find meat, chicken, turkey, and pork that are raised without hormones and antibiotics. Free-range, of course. So... as awful as these creatures have to endure being slaughtered for our appetite and all that, at least they get to live a natural life..... :-(...
Now let me share with you all why I'm plugging my eating habit here. Human beings have been eating "natural" food for thousands and thousands of years. This whole thing about pesticides, preservatives, drugs, hormones and abuses -- they're all recent stuffs, not even a hundred years old. Before all these stuffs were used on animals, people had only "natural" food to eat. But eating natural food didn't seem make them any better than people of today. They killed, maimed, and tortured each other; they cheated, corrupted, exploited, and abused each other -- as much as, or, who knows, more than people of today. In other words, all the social problems that exist now have always existed in the past when all the food there was was natural food.
So I'm looking at this eating habit (eating organically-grown fruits and vegetables and naturally-raised animal meats) not as a cure-all, save-all, the only way to restore a "perfect" way of life we somehow have lost. All I'm thinking is: it wouldn't help anything by adding more problems (health and environmental problems) for us humans to deal with on top of our age-old repertoire: corruption, greed, cruelty, war, injustice, arrogance, etc. Besides, these problems, like pesticides for example, affect other species too and not just us humans. These other species are innocent creatures who share this earth with us. Let's not mess it up for them.....
The following is the list of informative links. Please check them out to learn more in detail about organic food and farming:
Organic Farming Resource
Scot Supak's Organic Page
An Organic Farmer's Homepage
Organic Farming & Environmental Consequences
Sustainable
Agriculture
Westcountry Organic Food
Organic Certification Program
The Gesundheit Institute