Organic food is a snob-appeal ploy.
(American Daily) Nice article high-lighting the hypocrisy of eco-freaks. Oraganic farming actually harms the environment by using twice as much land to produce the same amount of food as regular farming.
“Humans are already using 37 percent of the Earth’s land area for farming, and we’ll need at least double today’s farm output to feed a peak human population of 8 or 9 billion in 2050. Thus, an all-organic farming mandate for the planet would mean clearing all 16 million square miles of remaining forest to plant more low-yield crops.”
“The latest low-till farming, which uses herbicides to control weeds instead of plowing, has one-tenth the soil erosion of an organic farm. Thus, all-organic farming would be more environmentally destructive than replacing the planet’s whole current fleet of 500 million cars with Humvees.”
Go here to read the whole article and just pass over that little blurb about Hummers costing $100,000 as my brother-in-law bought one off the lot for $53k new just a couple of years ago…
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