Woo Hoo we have been shortlisted for Bravest and Best “Brick to Click” Business category, Dot ie Net Visionary Awards 2012.
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Thank you from all the team at The Organic Supermarket
July 14th 2008 (the day the recession was announced) saw the birth of our little venture “The Organic Supermarket”, four years later we are stronger than ever. This is all thanks to you the customers and supporters of our project.
Our eight happy staff are buzzing with excitement this weekend as we celebrate in style. Please come join us in the Blackrock store (or online) to help us celebrate!
Website – 25% off all fruit and vegetable boxes for the weekend.
In store – Free bottle of wine when you spend over €50. (RRP €12.50)
In store – 15% off your fruit & veg when you wish the cashier a “Happy Birthday”
In store – competitions, tastings, face painting & good old fashioned FUN!
All offers valid for the 13th/14th/15th of July 2012.
Once again. Thank you.
We are now hiring part time foodies, if you love food and are looking for some part time flexible work, then please send in your CV.
So we have hunted up and down the country and are delighted to announce that we are now stocking 100% ORGANIC RAW MILK and Butter from Ballymore Farm hand made in the Wicklow Mountains…they delivery farm fresh every Wednesday, and it sells out fast, to reserve call the shop.
Ballymore Farm is an organic dairy farm nestled in the foothills of the Wicklow mountains just outside the village of Ballymore Eustace in County Kildare. They have a herd of 60 cows of various breeds including Jerseys, Ayrshires and Friesians. Their cows are happy and healthy and enjoy the good life. As a result they produce a luscious nutritious milk which they bottle on site and distribute to our store each Wednesday. They have other yummy things that they make on site too including handmade raw milk butter, buttermilk, yogurt and cream.
Exposure to Pesticides – Two minute read – Fact Sheet – The effect on children.
By the Organic Consumer Association – USA.
“The Majority of this data, assembled in July 2005, comes from U.S. government agencies and their respective reports.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Academy of Sciences, standard chemicals are up to ten times more toxic to children then to adults, depending on body weight. This is due to the fact that children take in more chemicals relative to body weight than adults and have developing organ systems that are more venerable and less able to detoxify such chemicals (1). According to the EPA’s “Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment,” children receive fifty percent of their lifetime cancer risks in the first two years of life” (2).
According to the Food and Drug Administration, half of the produce currently tested in grocery stores contains measurable residues of pesticides. Laboratory test of eight industry-leader baby foods reveals the presence of sixteen pesticides, including three carcinogens. (3). In blood samples of children aged two to four, concentrations of pesticide residues are six times higher in children eating conventionally farmed fruits and vegetables compared to those eating organic food. (4)
According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, organophosphate pesticides (OP) are now found in the blood of ninety-five percent of Americans tested. OP levels are twice as high in blood samples taken from children than in adults. Exposure to Ops is linked to hyperactivity, behaviour disorders, learning disabilities, developmental delays, and motor function dysfunction. OPs account for half the insecticides used in the United States (5).
The U.S Centre for Disease Control reports that one of the main sources of pesticide exposure for U.S Children comes from the food they eat (6).
Currently, more than 400 chemicals can be regularly used in conventional farming as biocides to kill weeds and insects. For example, apples can be sprayed up to sixteen times with thirty-six different pesticides. None of these chemicals are present in organic foods (8).
More than 300 synthetic foods additives are allowed by the FDA in conventional foods. None of these are allowed in foods that are USDA certified organic.”
Note from The Organic Supermarket Staff:
We are not posting this to make you shop in our store, we are posting this to help everyone make an informed consumer decision, and hopefully help reverse the trend that our children will be the first generation in history that will have a shorter life span, and suffer more disease, then their parents. Please share this on social media and help get the information to the public that the ‘food’ factories are doing the best to prevent you from seeing.
Thank you for reading.
** Pages to references to follow in the next blog **
