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You can't feed 6 billon people on organic farming. http://www.reason.com/blog/show/132479.html http://www.reason.com/blog/show/132479.html
by glymor 17y ago
You can't feed 6 billon people on organic farming.
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/132479.html http://www.reason.com/blog/show/132479.html
- dagw 17y agoIs anybody arguing that you can? Is anybody championing organic farming because they think it will feed the world?
- robotrout 17y agoSure they are. Any progressive, liberal, green, whatever, person who corners you in a coffee shop and laments how evil farmers are for not doing organic farming. That guy, you know him. He better think it's going to feed the world. I'd rather believe he's stupid than believe he's genocidal.
- dagw 17y agoMaybe the progressive, liberal, green people I've met are more nuanced. Most realize that organic farming is inherently less efficient (in calories per acre farmable land) and aren't putting forward as a solution to world hunger.
- pmorici 17y agoThat wasn't the point the OP said that the Green revolution was great for the environment. That's not strictly true there are some good things but also bad.
- masomenos 17y agoPlenty of studies suggest that organic can be as or more productive than chemical intensive. A quick google produces the following from the University of Michigan: http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=5936 http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=5936