Posted by RodInNS on October 18, 2013 at 06:23:28 from (216.118.158.123):
In Reply to: Re: Organic Farming posted by rockyridgefarm on October 18, 2013 at 04:56:01:
If you removed all GMO technology from the table, all pesticides, all chemical fertilizer... especially fertilizer... you can bet your bottom dollar that there wouldn't be enough food to go around, even if ethanol was removed from the equation. You'd be talking about taking agricultural production back to 1940's levels when the planet could barely feed itself then with two and a half billion people. We're at 7 today and projected for 9 billion in 40 more years time... and we're still paving over our best farm land everywhere you look. Something has to give...
Even if there was technically enough food to feed everyone.... the cost of that food would make it unavailable to some and that some would undoubtedly be a larger number than it is today.
I also challenge the notion outright that 'organic' is more sustainable. You're trading a system most often of reduced/minimum/no tillage and a couple of passes with a sprayer for a system of conventional tillage, multiple cultivations and significantly reduced yields. If you were looking at the energy equation of petroleum inputs per tonne of crop yield I suspect it would be a good deal lower for 'conventional' agriculture vs 'organic' agriculture. When one of the stated goals of organic is consuming less non renewable resources... I think it fails flatly in that regard.
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