Good afternoon! How was your day today? My day was fun because I danced with my friends after school.
Well, in one of my earlier posts, I talked about the book that I'm reading right now which is about organic farming. But the book is written a little difficult, so I searched for videos that can explain it a little bit easier for me and I found a lot! So I would like to introduce one that I thought was really easy to understand and fun to watch. The video title is "What is Organic" and let me give you a short description of the video. To the people who don't know what organic means, it means products with no chemical fertilizers or pesticides.
The opposite word for organic is conventional and this was a new word or fact I found out. Conventional farmers use many harmful chemicals and pesticides. Another new fact I found out was organic farmers use flame weeders (made of clean natural gases) to kill the weeds, and this type of gas is used when we have barbecues.
Now I think everybody is wondering how do we know what is truly organic. We need certification. And this was another new fact for me and Australia has 8 government certifiers and some international organic certifiers. I added some pictures of those certifiers below. If you search on google, there are hundreds more!
And on this video, a website www.pureandgreen.com.au was introduced. When I looked at it, it was a site with whole bunch of organic facts and products! This got me really interested in reading it, so when I have time, I definitely want to take a look at it.
Here is the video:
See you at my next post!
You chose a challenging book to read and review, but it deals with a concrete topic that affects our lives in a big way. I was surprised to learn that Australia has 8 government certification agencies. I'm from California and they had one of the first, and quite strict, certification systems in the US. Now there's USDA (US Dept. of Agriculture) organic and organic products in US supermarkets seem to be certified by this organization more than any other. I try to buy organic vegetables and fruits whenever I can. I purchase vegetables at a farmers' market in Tokyo. The produce is not formally certified by any particular agency but since I have a long-term relationship with the farmers, or their direct agents, I feel that I can trust them when they tell me that they are either organic or a low amount of pesticides was used, far from the time of harvest.
ReplyDeleteI just heard of a film that I'm going to get for this seminar about organic certification called "In Organic We Trust." I'm glad you learned so much from the book you're reading.