A new research has indicated that organic wine is twice as good as the non-organic variant for the planet, as the former is more eco-friendly.
If you’re a die-hard wine enthusiast, here’s a new eco-friendly option you could explore. It has been found that the organic variant of wine is twice as good for our planet than its regular non-organic version.
According to a report in New Scientist, for the research, Valentina Niccolucci and colleagues from the University of Siena, Italy, measured the resources used to grow, package and distribute wine made from Sangiovese grapes at two farms in Tuscany 30 kilometers apart.
Organic Foods - 'Natural products'
Organic Foods are produced by the ‘natural method’, without the use of chemicals like pesticides, fertilizers or sewage sludge.
Organic Foods are produced by the ‘natural method’, without the use of chemicals like pesticides, fertilizers or sewage sludge.
The team worked out the resources needed to support the making of each wine - its "eco-footprint".
A bottle from the organic farm had an eco-footprint of 7.17 square meters, half that of the non-organic wine with a footprint of 13.98 square meters.
Why Become Organic? - Benefits of organic food
Organic Foods benefits the environment, the producers or farmers and the consumers
Organic Foods benefits the environment, the producers or farmers and the consumers
Though it's not clear that organic food is always eco-friendly, the team said that wine producers could shift to organic systems to reduce their overall ecological impact.
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