There are approximately 8700 registered agricultural chemicals and hormones used in food production in Australia as well as many more unregistered chemicals.
“Organically/naturally produced food is
not a luxury it is how food is meant to be produced”.
Conventional farming practices using pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, rodenticides and fungicides have the potential to weaken crops and livestock natural immunities in the long-term especially when applied in untested combinations. The use of such chemicals and hormones can also lead to residues in meat. The effects of these residues is largely unknown although for some of the chemicals used in food production in the past such as organo-chlorines have now been proven unsafe and severely detrimental to good health.