Posted by oldtanker on October 15, 2013 at 20:45:42 from (66.228.255.116):
In Reply to: Organic Farming posted by Hoofer B on October 15, 2013 at 13:58:00:
While I don't trust GMO's and the chemicals they use for those crops unless most of the farmers are willing to go back to multi line farming (having livestock to produce fertilizer and enough to do all of their land) we are stuck with chemical farming. The big time grain operators and feedlot beef/confinement chicken and pork raisers are not going to sacrifice production or land to go back to the way it was. If they had to go back to cultivation row crops they couldn't find enough qualified operators to run tractors for a couple of thousand acres or more.
Plus organic is a lot of work. You really need a market that will buy in volume. It's OK for people who don't count on farm income for living most of the time to sell organic at farmer markets. Retirees looking for a little extra income and so on. It's either small time for pocket change or lots of employees to keep things under control. Plus the hassle of being organic. Looks like USDA is going to get /has gotten involved in inspecting and certs. Plus the paper work is a killer too.
As far as people living longer that prior to WWII, get a grip guys. That has more to do with modern medicine than with preservatives in foods. Back then most heart attacks were fatal and cancer certainly was. Now you got folks running around with someone else's heart in their chest.
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