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www.AbbysHealthFood.com - Issue 42 | Page 11 The Dirty Dozen (These foods are generally higher in herbicides and pesticides): Strawberries, Spinach, Kale, Nectarines, Apples, Grapes, Peaches, Cherries, Pears, Tomatoes, Celery, Potatoes. Besides the possible health benefits shown in research, and other than the health advantages that my family and I have seen from eating organic, I have also found that organic food tastes much better too! And world-renowned chefs generally choose to cook with organic foods for that very reason. Plus, food is supposed to be organic folks. That's how nature created it. Think about it. All food was naturally organic prior to WWII and the invention and deployment of synthetic chemical pesticides. Organic food is food. Conventional, GMO foods can get so scary that their seeds are actually registered as pesticides, not as food, as in the case of GMO corn seeds. And do you really want spider genes in your goat milk? Fish genes in your tomatoes? Bacterial genes in your corn? GMO pigs that glow in the dark due to jellyfish genes? Atlantic salmon with genes from Pacific salmon and ocean pout? This is Franken-food. Would you want these "foods" in your body? In the environment? Anyway, GMOs are a complex subject for another article. So, for now, I'll leave it at that. The bottom line is, in my opinion, organic food is better and we shouldn't be labeling organic foods as organic, as if they are the exception. We should instead be labeling foods as conventional. They should be the exception; everything else should be organic and not need a label! With the number of positives, and clear ways to save money, I say, why not choose organic? As a certified nutritional consultant and proud representative of Abby's Health and Nutrition in Tampa, we hope that you will choose organic too and reap the rewards as we have.