1. Organic agriculture does not use environmentally harmful chemicals that pollute the nation's groundwater, a primary source of our drinking water.
2. Songbirds and other wildlife are not harmed by organic farming methods.
3. Organic farmers keep the topsoil on the fields, not eroding into our nation's waterways.
4. Unusual varieties of crops and livestock are more likely to be raised organically; helping to keep the gene pool for our food products more diversified.
5. With their watersheds being farmed by organic farmers, our rivers and lakes stay much cleaner and their fish stocks are healthier and more plentiful.
6. Organic farming produces very healthy topsoil, rich with biological matter.
7. Rainwater is cleaner the more farmers are farming organically, since environmentally harmful chemicals do not get absorbed into the atmosphere.
8. Because organic farming builds and nurtures the Earth, farming organically means that we can grow our food on the same fields indefinitely.
9. A wide variety of wild animal and plant species thrive on organic farms, supporting continued biodiversity on our planet.
10. Recent studies show that organic farming methods are evolving to the point that they produce equivalent yields when compared to conventional farming with chemicals. This means we can grow our food organically and not have to put more wild acres into farm production.
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