This is a must read article. RK
Filed under: Science & Technology We don’t have enough land and we can’t afford the opportunity costs of a return to a romantic version of agriculture. But we can afford a food system that provides lots of choices. ….. A recent study by a group of scientists at Stanford University found that the nutritional benefits of organic food have, to say the least, been oversold. Apres moi, le deluge. A furor has erupted. In our modern-day version of holy wars, we’ve replaced debates about gnosticism and Manichaeism with arguments about the virtues of locally grown versus sustainable versus organic. As with all wars over doctrine, the rhetoric has been fierce….
Perhaps farmers aren’t changing to organic production because conventional yields continue to increase, rather than decrease, as the organic narrative would demand.
Plants and animals aren’t the least bit interested in the story the farmer has to tell. They don’t care about his sense of social justice….[they] don’t respond by growing better if the farmer is local, and pigs don’t care much about the methods used in the production of their daily ration. If those inputs that animals and plants require to grow are present, plants and animals respond in pretty similar ways. That means that when organic and/or conventional farmers provide the environment necessary for growth, plants and animals respond. It would be a shock if this did not occur, and it shouldn’t really be a story at all. To Read More…..
My Take – Organic is nothing more that Lysenkoism plain and simple. They believe therefore it must be science. I am reposting my article; Let Me Tell You about Trofim Denisovich Lysenko.
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