Organic vegetables & Fruits

Just I wrote this note on Organic food yesterday. And today, one alert patient called up and asked us to watch IBN7 news channel in the morning. The big news was...that farmers were shown injecting hormone oxytocin into vegetables and fruit! They inject this twice. First, to increase the growth of the plant. Second time, directly into vegetable or fruit to increase the size! They are particularly injected in pumpkin, watermelon, bringle and cucumber.
Oxytocin injections are also used in cattle to increase milk production! It is injected two hours before milking!
There was another story on how animal fats were used to 'create' desi ghee look, and was passed on as 'Ghee' ( Clarified butter)!
All this is very harmful to health!
It is difficult to find out the difference between organic or non-organic from what is available in the market. Also, I have found difficult to locate organic farmer growing vegetables and supplying to our city.
May God save us from all this!

Organic Farmer

Our friend Venkat Iyer sent us an sms yesterday regarding organic ground nut oil, organic mung beans, Urad Dal and Sesame (Til ) oil available from his farm. Venkat is 42 year friend, was working in IBM company, decided to leave that job, and become a full time organic farmer! He is a farmer now for last 4 years. He has a farm near Dahanu. From not having much knowledge about farming, now he is a full time farmer! I have been using many of the foods that he grows. I appreciate the difference between a refined ground nut oil and just filtered ground nut oil. I have also used brown rice. Also Chikoo and poha.

My brother Asit has a farm too near Umbergaon and grows all organic. If you taste papaya or mango from his farm, you will not eat any other! They are so ...tasty!

Whenever possible, we try to use organic food. It is important to not to add more chemicals in our body. Chemical pesticides and fertilisers used to grow some of the food items can be harmful for health. What Venkat says ' The satisfaction I have got exceeds all limits. The kicks I get from farming, is much more than cracking software.'

Thanks Venkat for being a farmer! We can eat good food ! What you do is very important for us!