[VegChat] The Organic Myth

[Kevin J. Smith]

This was a very good article but it wrongly tries to tie increased land
resource use on organic farming when that is simply not the case.  An
organic carrot and a chemical laden carrot take up the same amount of
space.  In the article, land use problems were always in conjunction with
producing meat and dairy products.  A meat/dairy based diet simply does not
scale.  In our attempts to scale meat and dairy production and drive profits
we have perverted the concept of farming so far that we can't reverse the
practices to anything close to acceptable from a natural/humane/organic
perspective.  And as such, they are having difficulty meeting the demand for
organic meat and dairy products.  This further crystallizes in my mind that
the only hope for our society is to adopt a plant based diet, if not for
ethical reasons then for the simple survival of our own species.

On 10/22/06, uHuman <uhuman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The Organic Myth
> Pastoral ideals are getting trampled as organic food goes mass market
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> http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_42/b4005001.htm
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