kwilkinson
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Organic farming can frequently cause considerably more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional farming due to indirect land use change effects.
This ain't not one of dem debatin threads, friend. If you wants a fight, go start yer own.
You said Other (explain) I was explaining why I voted other, not looking for an argument or to screw up your thread kwilk.
Actually, I've heard the argument that it uses less fuel overall to ship an enormous ship of apples from China than it does for farmers to drive 90 miles into a city and for everyone to drive to the farmer's market. I don't know if I buy it, since I've never seen actual numbers and doubt tha tI ever will, but I've heard that argument. What do you mean by indirect land use change effects?
It's basically no different than the way our grandparents' generation farmed. The pre-WWII agriculture, particularly on small farms, was organic. They just didn't call it that and didn't get foofy about it.
There is a lot to be said for this, and it is probably what we should aim to be doing. Not to get to debatey in Kwilks thread.
Well it has to be called organic, right? I mean everything now is mass-produced, sprayed, or even genetically modified. Organic isn't the "norm" anymore, so it needs to have some kind of qualifier.
GM is also not inherently bad, it just might be unnecessary, and has the potential to be bad in that it could bring farmers under the total control of biotech companies.