Posted by johnald on February 01, 2012 at 17:12:01 from (74.240.136.201):
In Reply to: Food nazis posted by rrlund on February 01, 2012 at 09:38:36:
DDT was basically agent orange with a different name.
A big problem with this argument of organic vs. conventional is that you can't directly compare the two systems of farming. If you took all of the land used for conventionally grown corn, soybean, etc. and changed it to diversified, chemical free vegetables i'd bet a weeks pay that it would produce more food per acre. It would also create more jobs and allow more people to keep farming instead of haveing their children have to go to the city and get a job because the farm can't produce enough income.
There is also a finite amount of people that the earth can support. Just like there are only so many cows you can put in a field. No amount of genetic modification can change that.
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