h a l f b a k e r yWhere life imitates science.
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, random
news, help, about, links, report a problem
browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
register,
|
|
|
Please log in.
Before you can vote, you need to register.
Please log in or create an account.
|
The foot and mouth disaster will surely boost organic farming world wide.
However, policing organic labels reportedly keeps costs high.
Could the organic movement accept a range of food-crops for animals and humans harmlessly gm’d to glow under fluorescent lights or whatever to say
“I’m genuinely organic!”?
it’s a raw-state idea I know, but something like this has to happen to lower the cost of organic food production and marketing.
Factory farming has apparently had its day.
[link]
|
| |
Humane (not necessarily organic) farming seems like a better solution to the rapid spread of disease among cattle. |
|
| |
I'm skeptical that policing is what keeps the cost of organic produce high. I think the lower yields have more to do with it. |
|
| |
How would the fluorescent label
help anything? Non-organic
farmers could fraudulently grow
labelled crops just as easily as
they could fraudulently apply a
"Certified Organic!" sticker. |
|
| |
Besides, as PeterSealy points out,
GM is the last thing the organic
freaks are going to embrace. |
|
| |
I see political rhetoric here is equally half-baked. |
|
| |
degroof, the problem with your idea is that "organic farming" isn't defined by the use of certain fertilizers or pesticides; it's defined by the *absence* of certain fertilizers or pesticides. Non-organic farmers may still use mulch and manure; they might also use, say, heptachlor or endrin, which is what makes them non-organic. |
|
| |
Kind of a shallow look at organic practices Una. Farms that rely on chemical fertilizers and pesticides are unsustainable for a number of reasons. |
|
| |
The first problem with current practices is the reliances on petrol chemicals to boost yields. I am not worried so much with running out of fertilizer (I believe they use coal to make it) but that at both chemical plant and farm the practice leads to groundwater contamination. |
|
| |
Secondly - Salt ... the synthetic Ammonia that comprises petrochemical fertilizer is salt based. Not the greatest legacy to leave behind in soil that you wish to grow crops in long term. |
|
| |
So... we get polluted ground water and fucked up topsoil in exchange for pretty veggies that taste like cardboard. |
|
| |