No Tree Left Behind!

[amsterdam]

growing organic food is bad?

genetically modified food and pesticides must be good then?

hell yes it is bad.takes up alot of room for hardly any product.waste of time.

[amsterdam]

enviromentalists have NO answers and should be ignored.

[amsterdam]

funny pissy didnt know hao worthless organic food is.

oh well,thewres a sucker born every minute willing to pay more for "organic food" and bottled water.

[pisshead]

i'll take natural and organic food over gm pesticide food anyday.

how did the world survive for thousands of years without those gracious gm food corporations. i guess we'll never know.

[amsterdam]

organic farming consumes large tracts of land to produce very small potatoes and strawberries.high yield farming is vastly more efficient.pesticides and bioengineering produce the most crops out of the least amount of land.when we get higher yields from our farms,we leave more room for wilderness.

[pisshead]

i don't see a shortage of room for farming. i love going to farmers' markets, and will not eat pesticides...how crazy!

[amsterdam]

makes sense though.

[bhallg2k]

Dude, you're just totally off.

Organic farming doesn't waste land. Certain crops grown organically could outproduce tradtional row-planting by four to 12 times over a 10,000 year period. Large row-planting, corporate farms waste thousands of acres of land every year because of having to allow the land to go fallow due to too many chemicals being absorbed into the soil. When you combine that with the fact that those chemicals (as well as now genetically modified manure) seep into the water table, polluting drinking water for people, organic farming is the only kind that makes sense. It's more expensive, yes, because it's more labor intensive.

Hell, I'll pay more for corn if it won't give me cancer and gives someone else a job.

And about bioengineering; three words. Mad Cow Disease.

[amsterdam]

like i said,ineffective.10,000 years?

[bhallg2k]

Shocking isn't it? When you remove artificial chemicals from the equation, the Earth has amazing recovering ability.

And organic prices would come down if more people bought organic products. It's still a niche category in most supermarkets.

I don't have figures to support this, but I think that if you were to remove the farm subsidies that keep produce prices down, on equal footing, organic foods would be competitive with - I don't know what to call it - "technology farming."