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The article is not conflating organic farming with sustainability. It’s citing a specific example where a company switched to organic farming because it was mo

The article is not conflating organic farming with sustainability. It’s citing a specific example where a company switched to organic farming because it was more sustainable, specifically making the soil more sustainable.

chicob 7y ago
"In the case of the Portuguese wineries, both already had good reputations for quality. All they wanted to do was to keep giving consumers great wine at a good price, without degrading their soil. They hadn’t increased the cost of making wine as they shifted to organic practice." My interpretation comes from this kind of phrasing, were it is assumed that the shift towards organic farming was a move towards sustainability.
- addicted 7y ago
  Yeah but it describes what that organic practice was. Which was changes to improve the sustainability of the soil. It’s again referencing a specific organic practice which is sustainable.
FartyMcFarter 7y ago
It is conflating the two. For example, the paragraph starting with: > This phenomenon is not limited to the clothing industry. The UK organic groceries market has been expanding steadily for the past eight years. Without any explanation given of how this relates to sustainability, they imply that the relationship between organic and sustainable is obvious. That looks like conflation to me.
- addicted 7y ago
  Except that isn’t doing that either. The this here refers to “whereby innovations are silently enacted and kept from the rest of the industry” which is not sustainability. Further, it calls this practice “secret sustainability” and the article itself encloses it in quotes indicating it’s using this term out of convenience, and that it’s not actually a precise term. The use of quotes around secret sustainability is the article explicitly pointing out that it does not consider this an accurate term, and is using it extremely loosely.

chicob 7y ago

"In the case of the Portuguese wineries, both already had good reputations for quality. All they wanted to do was to keep giving consumers great wine at a good price, without degrading their soil. They hadn’t increased the cost of making wine as they shifted to organic practice." My interpretation comes from this kind of phrasing, were it is assumed that the shift towards organic farming was a move towards sustainability.

addicted 7y ago
Yeah but it describes what that organic practice was. Which was changes to improve the sustainability of the soil. It’s again referencing a specific organic practice which is sustainable.

FartyMcFarter 7y ago

It is conflating the two. For example, the paragraph starting with: > This phenomenon is not limited to the clothing industry. The UK organic groceries market has been expanding steadily for the past eight years. Without any explanation given of how this relates to sustainability, they imply that the relationship between organic and sustainable is obvious. That looks like conflation to me.

addicted 7y ago
Except that isn’t doing that either. The this here refers to “whereby innovations are silently enacted and kept from the rest of the industry” which is not sustainability. Further, it calls this practice “secret sustainability” and the article itself encloses it in quotes indicating it’s using this term out of convenience, and that it’s not actually a precise term. The use of quotes around secret sustainability is the article explicitly pointing out that it does not consider this an accurate term, and is using it extremely loosely.