Welcome to OrganicFoods.cn, the place where you can find out more about the organic trend: organic food, organic farming, free range farming, animal welfare, and sustainable agriculture. You have most likely at least heard about organic food, and probably associate it with issues of environmentalism, health, and nutrition. The question of where your food comes from, how it is produced and processed, and what ingredients and traces of chemicals are in it — all of these are very important, particularly in today’s complex economy where it’s becoming harder and harder to answer them.

The mentality of those who don’t like organic food or of those who don’t care where their food comes from is that the organic food trend doesn’t really matter — after all, they are just individual consumers exercising their consumer choice, and as long as it doesn’t harm them, it has no other implications. This is exactly the kind of mentality that can be exploited so easily by those who want to hide the details of their agricultural and environmental practices. The organic food movement, the so-called “slow food” movement, the initiatives to “buy local,” (i.e. consume locally grown food, if possible), and other related causes for environmental betterment, animal welfare, and sustainable agriculture have been quite successful recently in reversing this trend of willful ignorance and raising awareness on issues of sustainable development and good agricultural stewardship.

If you browse around this site, you can find out more about what exactly organic food and organic farming implies, what are some of the economic, ethical, health-related and environmental aspects of growing, processing and selling food, and what your role as a consumer is in ensuring that all of us become more informed, more involved, and consequently better fed, healthier, and better stewards of the earth. One page in particular focuses on organic food and organic agriculture in China, which is one of the fastest-growing economies of the world, with the largest population, and whose choices in sustainable agricultural practices can have a tremendous global impact.