No problem, I'm probably not going to make it any easier to read, haha. I'm not completely familiar with the quoting system.
Ah, thank you for the links. I was aware that pesticides were used in organic farming, but I wasn't aware that certain synthetic pesticides were used. I am much more invested in the livestock segment of industrial farming than the crops, so my knowledge and investment in that area is much more extensive.
This wonder and
similar situations to it is one of the reasons why I don't consider the current conventional system very sustainable.
The current trends in major livestock companies is a big strike against conventional farming for me. The horrifying conditions these animals are kept in cannot be justified. I cannot in good conscience support a system that causes billions of living creatures to be subjected to conditions that make them physically and mentally ill. Concentrated is literally in the name of the official term applied to these operations, with all of the Holocaust imagery that implies. Not to mention all of the meat recalls that have to take place from animals raised in these conditions (mostly beef, to my knowledge).
I can provide links about CAFOS(Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) if you're interested.
So organic food is no more unhealthy than conventional food. You were saying earlier that organic food was unhealthy, so do you also think that conventional food is unhealthy?
I wouldn't say it's all hearsay from marketers and hippies....
They're expensive because true organic farming is inefficient. A lot of the organic food that people buy are actually not local at all(and they're questionably organic, considering
"certified organic" foods can have synthetic ingredients). Huge corporations have jumped on the organic ship a long time ago, and that's why organic food is a $60 billion industry.
Sorry if it's hard to read, these posts take a lot of writing and rewriting.
Like I said before, the main reason why organic food is so much more expensive is that the government (ie taxpayers) does not pay for it in the way that it pays for conventionally raised crops (which then goes to feed conventionally raised livestock), not just because it differs in its use of pesticides and fertilizers. Another strike against conventional farming is that one of the crops subsidized (corn) is a crop that is very hard on the soil.
I'm not arguing that organic corporations should be the future. I think that they're a step in the right direction, but they're not what we should be aiming for. I'm in support of buying locally from smaller farms that can practice organic methods because they don't farm in a way where questionable conventional practices are necessary.