Let's Go Organic – It's Good for the World.

[longknife]

Oh yeah? Check this out -

A British meta-analysis published in 2012 identified some of the stresses that were higher in organic agriculture. For example, it found that “ammonia emissions, nitrogen leaching, and nitrous oxide emissions per product unit were higher from organic systems,” as were “land use, eutrophication potential, and acidification potential per product unit.”

Lower crop yields in organic farming are largely inevitable, owing to the arbitrary rejection of various advanced methods and technologies. Organic practices afford limited pesticide options, create difficulties in meeting peak fertilizer demand, and rule out access to genetically engineered varieties. If organic production were scaled up significantly, the lower yields would lead to greater pressure to convert land to agricultural use and produce more animals for manure, to say nothing of the tighter squeeze on water supplies – all of which are challenges to sustainability

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Read more at Henry I. Miller and Richard Cornett argue that conventional agriculture's higher yields reduce pressure on natural resources. - Project Syndicate

 

[PredFan]

It's all organic.

If its not organic then it's synthetic. I don't eat anything that is synthetic. My hot dogs, bacon, beer, chicken wings...they are all organic.

 

[Crick]

The salt, sodium nitrite, potassium nitrate, sodium ascorbate, sodium erythorbate, sodium triphosphate in your bacon are all organic? Your hot dog will contain the sodium erythorbate and the sodium nitrite as well. Your beer may well be organic: alcohol makes an excellent preservative all on its own.