Re: Feeding the World

Posted by Destroked 450 on August 19, 2018 at 12:05:31 from (173.242.142.14):

In Reply to: Feeding the World posted by Traditional Farmer on August 17, 2018 at 18:21:59:

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The basic definition of feeding the world is any person that raises more food stuffs than they can eat themselves, at which point if they give, trade or sell that extra food stuffs to another person for them to eat or distribute for others to eat, then they in some small or large part have helped to feed the world.

I'm glad you have found a market for the organicity grown products you raise and are able to make a profit from that.

Now you ask us to give our commercially grown products to those than can't afford to pay, so let's even the playing field and you give your organic product away as well.

We can't afford to do that for long before we are amongst those that are broke and starving, how long can you or are you willing to do the same.

In the world of humanitarian aid, volume per dollar of commercially grown foods feds more than quality per dollar of organic, and I don't think those starving people are going to care how it was grown as long as they have something to eat.

I do agree with the philosophy of: Feed a man a fish and you've feed him for a day, teach him how to fish and you've feed him for a lifetime.

For those that demand organically grown food I'm glad there are people like you that can provide it for them and are able to make a profit from it.

For the rest of the world that can't afford organic or don't care, well that gives the non organic growers a market to sell their products.

For those that over use or abuse chemical usage and use bad growing practices in the name of profit, I truly hope their days are numbered.

On a side note, there's been considerable discussion in my area as to what the exact definition is for organically grown.

Is it simply commercially grown products without the use of chemical herbicides and pesticides?

Must you use some type of organic fertilizer as well?

What qualifies as organic fertilizer?

Must the seed come from a organic seed producer or you own seed stocks?

As for organic meat production it seams to get even more complicated.

Any organic grower out there that can give us a national standard for what you can and can not use to be a organic grower.

Here's an example of my confusion.

I am a commercial grower of broiler chickens, I've been told the litter from my chickens doesn't qualify has organic.

A friend has egg laying chickens for the same company but I'm told his litter does qualify as organic.

We both get feed from the same feed mill that uses the same commercially grown grains in both feeds.

We use the same sawdust bedding from the same supplier.

His eggs are hatched to produce the chicks I raise.

So how does his litter qualify as organic and mine not?

WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF ORGANIC??

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