Order organic flowers for Valentine's Day and help the Breast Cancer Fund and the environment out at the same time!!

Date:   1/12/2006 1:23:20 AM ( 18 y ago)

Flowers for Prevention

Buy a pesticide-free, sustainably-grown bouquet for your loved one this Valentine’s Day from Organic Bouquet, the world’s first online eco-florist. Order through this link and Organic Bouquet will donate 10 percent of your purchase to the Breast Cancer Fund.

Order organic bouquets:   http://www.organicbouquet.com/Info.aspx?pid=158&msource=news0106&tr=y...

If you have trouble with the site call Organic Bouquet directly at : Orders by Phone: (877) 899-2468

and tell them you want 10% of your purchase to go to the Breast Cancer Fund!

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Breast Cancer Fund:

The Breast Cancer Fund believes that most breast cancer can be prevented, and has adopted the bold mission to eliminate the environmental causes of the disease.  Through public education, policy initiatives, outdoor challenges and other innovative campaigns, the Breast Cancer Fund mobilizes the public to secure the changes needed to stop this devastating epidemic. http://www.breastcancerfund.org/site/pp.asp?c=kwKXLdPaE&b=43969&sid=8...

 Buy Organic Flowers for Valentine's Day and Every Day!  Organic Consumer's Association   http://www.organicconsumers.org/organic/flowers020204.cfm

· Whenever you touch or inhale the scent of your non-organic flowers, you are likely touching or inhaling poisonous chemicals. When you buy organic flowers, you will not have to worry about chemicals on your flower bouquets being toxic to your children, other members of your family,
or yourself.

· The main goal of organic agriculture is to farm in ways that do not harm the environment, while there is no such motive for most non-organic farms.

· Buying organic flowers helps support local organic farming communities and organizations, which often have charitable, philanthropic motives for selling their flowers.

· Organic flowers, according to many people, last longer than non-organic ones.

· On a spiritual, holistic level, organic flowers have been farmed in such ways that they retain the essence of flowers, as Mother Nature intended them to have.

· Organic flowers are a natural part of a healthy, natural lifestyle.

· Pesticides and other toxic chemicals used on flowers affect the health of farm workers and florists. The toxic chemicals spread onto the clothes and into the bodies of farm workers and their children. Florists who handle non-organic flowers have been known to develop dermatitis on their hands.

· According to an article on newdream.org, studies have shown that 50 % of workers in the Costa Rica flower industry have symptoms of pesticide poisoning. Areas surrounding flower farms there have higher miscarriage and birth defect rates than do other areas.

· The toxic chemicals used on flower farms poison groundwater and the soil. These chemicals also become part of the food chain, as animals such as birds will eat the sprayed plants. In the course of their seasonal migrations, these birds will spread these chemicals globally.

· Through evaporation, toxic pesticides and fertilizers that are sprayed on flower farms end up in the atmosphere. They then travel to other global areas to fall as rain or snow.

· Every flower counts: Increasing sales of certified organic flowers gives the market notice that more organic flowers need to be grown, which makes more flower farms convert to using organic agricultural methods.

About Organic Consumer's Association: http://www.organicconsumers.org/aboutus.htm

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