Have You Caught The Organic Bug?
February 17th, 2010 Posted in Organic & Chemical Pesticides
Today there are many ways you can be organic in your everyday life. Some people say being green is overly expensive and doesn’t make a difference, but this is not the case.
Being organic in 2010 is now affordable and helps limit the strain on the earth’s resources. It’s time we take action towards a brighter future for the next generation and beyond.
Want to learn more?
Organic Foods
The saying “you are what you eat” is very fitting when talking about organic foods. There is a vast amount of organic food info that could help to convince you to go green, but I’m going to stick to the basics. Non-organic foods are foods grown with additives, preservatives, and sprayed with harmful chemical pesticides.
These harsh chemical pesticides help to control disease and insect attack, but the downsides are not worth the benefits. For instance, when you bite into an apple it is likely you are consuming 30 different pesticides. Well, isn’t that gross. Although these pesticides help protect your food; they diminish the amount of nutrients found within them.
When hormones and various antibiotics are given to cattle, chicken, pigs, and other animals they are stored inside their bodies, ending up in your food. These chemicals can then be found in your own body, which can lead to untold side effects. Cancer, Alzheimer’s, and birth defects have all been linked to pesticide use in foods. Therefore, stick with organic to get fresh food without the downsides.
Organic Clothing
The benefits of choosing organic clothing goes far beyond helping just the environment. The cotton used to make clothing didn’t use to be harmful, but today the chemical pesticides used to preserve and alter cotton are quite harmful. These pesticides threaten people and wildlife. By wearing and buying organic clothing you are helping stop the widespread use of chemical pesticides.
You are not only helping protect the environment, but you are protecting future generations from getting directly and indirectly poisoned. Cotton companies only use about 3% of the planet’s farmland, but use 25% of the world’s supply of chemical pesticides. The pesticides used on cotton are Paraquat and Parathion, which have been scientifically proven to be 60 times more toxic than DDT.
The pesticide DDT has been outlawed by the EPA (the Environmental Protection Agency) because its side effects are so harmful to the environment. Then why are chemical pesticides that are worse being used to help produce our clothes? It makes NO SENSE and is scary to think about. Try wearing organic clothing to help limit the use of pesticides in the production of clothing.
Organic Bug Control
Pesticides, pesticides, and more pesticides. That is the main downside of not being organic. Yet, all your problems are solved. EcoSMART developed organic bug control that helps rid you of pests, while not negatively affecting the environment, animals, or your family. How is this possible you ask?
For example, EcoSMART’s natural ant killer can be sprayed all over some ants invading your porch. Once the ants are hit, our organic pesticides begin to work on contact.
These organic pesticides are made with peppermint and other natural ingredients that kill bugs and leaves everyone else unaffected. So, what are you waiting for? Go out and catch the organic bug today and help save the world one person at a time.
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By Geoff Carpenter on Feb 19, 2010
I would like to preface this by saying that I am a licensed Certified Applicator in Texas and as such I proudly admit to not only using your commercial products in favor of synthetics most of time, I have also swayed the opinion of all of my fellow techs and the owners of the company I work with. When I explain the way Eco works (EcoPCO AR-X is my favorite), everyone, including the die-hard do not treat my unit clients, are happy with the results, effectiveness, and quasi long term residual your products have produced so far. The only thing I see lacking is a bait for ants. I never recommend (sorry for this) spraying ants. In most of the “piss” ant species this will cause budding. Budding is the splitting of a colony resulting from the death of “scouts” who lay a pheromone when attacked or killed (as by an aerosol spray). The queen will produce another queen who will splinter off another colony to assure the species survival. Unfortunately, this can go on forever. Baits, if used correctly, will kill the whole colony, with no budding. If you could produce an ant bait, which is green, there would be very little reason for most techs and CA’s to use any synthetics on a normal daily basis. This is of course relating to general pest control not commodity or fumigants and so forth. You have a most excellent product line and I/we appreciate your forethought for our future health and well being. Long winded soap box speech over. Thank you.
By EcoSMART Brian on Feb 23, 2010
Hello Geoff,
Thanks for the praise! We really appreciate your business.
Budding is a difficult ant tactic to stop from happening, but there are a few ways you can help limit its occurrence.
Successful ant management requires a multitude of approaches, such as caulking the areas where the ants invade, improving the cleanliness of the area in question, and by using our Ant and Roach Killer. We can’t guarantee our products will prevent budding, but using our spray is quite successful in preventing and eliminating current and future ant infestations.