So why did you start eating/ living organic?

Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and the recent Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" has heightened the awareness of whole generations towards our impact on the environment. Carson focused on our agriculture practices and the devastating impact of usage of pesticides and DDT. Al Gore had built upon that firmly establish the existence of global warming and our seemingly "ostrich" behavior about it. As if the world is not round and that the smoke produced in another's country will stay within their borders only...

I also learnt of "Yoko Agriculture" in my early childhood. It is a movement towards organic growing that helps achieve unity between God, humans and nature. Yoko meaning yang (bright, positive and sun) light.

While organic products had been mostly focused on food related products, they have branched out into multitudes of consumer products that indirectly affect our health such as baby care products, cosmetics, toothpastes, soap etc.

Most importantly, organic living is not about drastic changes to the current food we enjoy and the products we use. There is also no need to convert to be a herbivore or adopt a new religion. While I do not live organic 100%, but every effort counts. Personally, I like to think of it as a form of responsible living as our every dollar spent on big businesses determines whether if our next generations still have blue oceans and green forests. weird

So why did you start eating/ living organic?