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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhu's Librarian" data-source="post: 2302177" data-attributes="member: 11064">Actually, just about everything you said is incorrect. Organic farming methods can actually use a heck of a lot less land to grow a greater percentage of food using high yeald methods. Check out any books by John Jeavons for more info on alternative farming methods. As for fertilizer being feces, what do you think is still the primary fetilizer used on 90% of all farmland? Compsted manure. So organinc/chemically treated food still gets about the same amount of fecal matter on it before it gets to you. I just don't see the need to pump food full of chemicals, genetically modify foods to make it easier for huge corporate farms to grow and harvest, all at the expense of taste, health, and productivity. Did you know that a tomato is naturally a soft fruit, not the hard, pale pink, tasteless things you buy in the supermarket? They have been breed to be easy to harvest and transport, so they have really thick skins to withstand the machines used to harvest them. An organic tomato is going to be naturally soft, and it'll tast a hell of a lot better. As for the example of an orange that you used, I peel my oranges befor eating them, so I'm not tto worried about poop being on the outside of the skin. And that organic orange is going to taste a lot better than the mass produced, monocrop, navel orange that ever supermarket in the country sells. Give me a blood orange, or a small herloom variety any day that is grown by an independant producer not in league with Sunkist or Dole. And do we really need corn and wheat that has has genes from a squid bioengineered into it, so that when you hit the plants with a blacklight they glow? Makes it easy for the factory farms to see where their planting methods are going wrong and seeds are drifting into areas they don't want planted. But who knows what those genes are doing to the plant? I don't want my food to be coming from genetically modified grains, jsut because the good old USDA says it's ok to put squid genes in my corn.I'm willing to pay a little more for naturally grown and breed fruit and vegitables, cheaper isn't always better.</blockquote>

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