Dr. Rafael S. Barrozo

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ORGANIC FARMING Producing Healthy, Safe, Quality
Foods

• By
• Dr. Rafael S. Barrozo
• OPTA-Executive Director

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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 become poor quality or
  contaminated. 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 Hawleys 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 Parkinsons disease suggests that
  in-home 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 Parkinsons disease and
  pesticides after laboratory rats developed
  Parkinsons 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.

• 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 Parkinsons.

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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.

• 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 1115Tel. [phone] Fax. (632)
  415-3636Cellphone 0919-7381457E-mail
  opta_at_edsamail.com.phwebsite www.optaphil.com

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