Responding to April 26, 2013, page 8 Healthy Life

Organic foods are not only about nutrition but for me, they are about no dead areas in the ocean.

The fertilizer runoff makes plants grow in the water but when those plants die there is no oxygen left and a dead zone is created.

Some fish can swim away but many animals cannot and they die with no oxygen to breathe. There is an imbalance of too much fertilizer which causes an algae bloom and then a dead zone.

If fertilizer does not reach the water there is not this problem.

Thus the helpful idea of organic farming and gardening.

Merry Ann Peterson
Normandy Park