Should we start using organic food?

My sis has a friend who owns a pomela orchard in the southern province of China. During her visit to the farm, the friend told her pesticide and other chemcials are used generously in most Chinese farms. They practice that too, but have a few speical pomelo trees which spcifically cater to their own needs and the fruits are wrapped carefully to free them from chemcials.

He also told her that human waste are precious to the small scale farmers. He doesn’t need to spend money to engage companies to clear his sewage at home, the farmers would happily come remove all the dump and use them as fertilliser.

I was watching “The Toilet Man” on National Geographic channel and it was showing me exactly the same thing- farmers scopping free human waste toilets and apply them to their vegetable patches.

While I told my sis those human waste were all natural, the idea of having raw salad that might have been laced with them aren’t agreeable at all. So, either have the veggies coated with chemicals from the larger scale farmers, or have those fertilised with all kind of “organic” waste from the smaller scale farms.  Yupe, time to check out on the organic greens.