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Then I was being unclear - I tend to buy organic because I buy from farmers who breed for flavor and there's a strong correlation between that and organic farmi

• sliverstorm 14y ago
  My personal experience suggests you're paying attention to the wrong indicator; rather than "organic", "local" is probably a better clue.
• jonny_eh 14y ago
  So you're saying your comment was off-topic? The article is about organic farming, not local farming. The fact that you like local produce says nothing about organic food.
  • varelse 14y ago
    Not at all, the chicken in Vietnam is likely organic and bred for flavor by somebody a couple doors down from the restaurant (you could hear the chicken coops everywhere throughout Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi), and the dry-farmed wines and tomatoes I love specifically embody organic techniques (reduced water consumption) in their production which are intrinsic to eliciting their superior flavor. Feel free to dry-farm some tomatoes and spray them with round-up just to prove your point though. As others have stated, the definition of organic at this point is too vague for it not to stray into areas like this.