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Disappointingly it seems that organic farming isn't better for the environment either. It relies heavily on the byproducts of animal agriculture (i.e. manure),
by tdeck 6y ago
Disappointingly it seems that organic farming isn't better for the environment either. It relies heavily on the byproducts of animal agriculture (i.e. manure), which is the most inefficient and polluting segment of our food supply. Even though people who eat organic may tend to eat less meat, that's not sustainable if their food supply is dependent on the meat-producing infrastructure remaining in place.
Organic farming also requires more land than non-organic farming, which means more forest and wetlands cleared for agriculture to produce the same amount of food.
Here's an interesting study on the topic: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652617309666 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09596...
- 488643689 6y agoWorth noting, we're actually drowning in cow shit. In Germany the meat lobby is actually pushing for disposing even more into the grounds, conventional or ecological farming. We could reduce meat production a lot, before running out of shit... On top, most crops are grown for animal consumption anyway.
- rvense 6y agoAs I understand it the problem is again distribution. If German cows are anything like Danish pigs, they eat a lot of Brazilian soy. But nobody's shipping shit back to South America. So they get fertilizer from mines. Maybe it's the pigs and cows who should be told to eat local?