(quoted from post at 13:46:10 12/05/18) It?s all about the money.
there really isn?t a whit of difference between conventional and organic or gmo free grains.
The good or the bad is in how it is processed and handled and fixed for the plate to serve.
The wholesalers and the retailers are perhaps the bad actors here.
Farming is farming, seed in the ground, see that enough nutrients are there, keep weeds and insects away, harvest timely. It doesn?t matter organic or conventional.
Some few chemical residues get through conventional farming, not much. Some few pathogens get through organic production, not much. Both have some pluses and
minuses, but it?s all farming more the same than different.
Consumers are being misled.
It really won?t be honest of me to go grow and support and be an organic farmer, if I think it is overall worse for the land? Then I?d just be selling out?
No, I will continue to try to be the best farmer I can be. If I have an opportunity to be organic and be good at it and take care of the land, that is fine. If I can do a better
job and create more, better, cheaper food for all and preserve my land, I will do so conventionally.
I don?t want to be a sell out. I?m not going to lie to my customers.
Paul
Paul. sorry gotta call you son some of this.
"there really isn?t a whit of difference between conventional and organic or gmo free grains."
You can prove this? With unimpeachable evidence? And there is absolutely no conflicting evidence?
"The good or the bad is in how it is processed and handled and fixed for the plate to serve."
Again what is your proof that how it's grown doesn't affect the final product?
"Farming is farming, seed in the ground, see that enough nutrients are there, keep weeds and insects away, harvest timely. It doesn?t matter organic or conventional."
Not even going to touch this one, way to many ways to disagree with that comment.
"Consumers are being misled."
Evidence? I'm sure some greedy lawyers would love to see that evidence so they can file class action lawsuits! So state attorney general offices might like to prosecute that too.
"No, I will continue to try to be the best farmer I can be. If I have an opportunity to be organic and be good at it and take care of the land, that is fine. If I can do a better
job and create more, better, cheaper food for all and preserve my land, I will do so conventionally."
That statement doesn't wash either. Not until you come out and demand that we stop turning food into fuel. Cause you have already created the cheap food by simply growing more that we can eat or run though our gas tanks combined. You guys and your cheap food. Sorry but you stop being believable when 41% of corn crown goes to ethanol. How can anyone take that as a serious statement?
In reality you should be encouraging organic and sustainable farming. They get less yield per acre thereby reducing production. The more land producing less will bring prices back up. The other options are for farms to fail taking land out of production (short term fix till other put that land back into production) or to find another way to use what is grown.
Rick