RE: Scientific arguments for eating Organic/non-GMO food?
June 5, 2015 at 12:28 am
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2015 at 12:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I think you may have Pollan all wrong..he's pretty big on ag sci (who know, though, may have lost it since I least checked). One of his best pieces of work was on why we shouldn't be stuffing cattle full of corn, imo. Organics aren't "anti-science" even if their customers may sometimes be.
(plants -can- hear, taste and feel,.what's the problem?)
There's really no argument for preference of organic over conventional in the general. Whichever is produced responsibly is fine (the differences between them are sometimes only the certification, most of the pesticides, for example..are shared by both production methods). If you had specific concerns/desires, maybe I could give you the ad copy version?
Organic as social one-upsmanship
Organic as a way to go local
Organic to reduce consumption of ag inputs (no more oil-to-food)
Organic as a soil builder
Organic as a niche market that can save a small farm, or support one (aka, "the business angle", lol)
(plants -can- hear, taste and feel,.what's the problem?)
There's really no argument for preference of organic over conventional in the general. Whichever is produced responsibly is fine (the differences between them are sometimes only the certification, most of the pesticides, for example..are shared by both production methods). If you had specific concerns/desires, maybe I could give you the ad copy version?
Organic as social one-upsmanship
Organic as a way to go local
Organic to reduce consumption of ag inputs (no more oil-to-food)
Organic as a soil builder
Organic as a niche market that can save a small farm, or support one (aka, "the business angle", lol)
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