Re: Organic food exposed / 'devils advocate' content for radio show today
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Matthew Baker
Mar 25, 2012, 2:22:44 PM3/25/12
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Organic food exposed
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/print/1567/organic-food-exposed?page=0%2C0
I have this printed out and we should address some of these "criticisms" on the show next week...
I have a copy with some highlights made to points I think we should discuss. I will get it to someone at GA this week.
My thoughts on the article is that it fails to show that organic agriculture doesn't just mean 'natural' pesticides and 'natural' fertilizer to replace 'chemical' items.
Organic agriculture means a return to the land by all of us, putting our hands in the ground, growing actual food, and accomplishing that on a much smaller scale but by a lot more people.
On that level, there is plenty of land, water, and greenwaste to supply nutrition to plants and thus our selves.
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Nancy Hotaling
Mar 25, 2012, 4:26:56 PM3/25/12
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Matt
That was a well written article on organic agriculture- showing both sides- basically
There is another organization that is involved in real solutions to sustainable agriculture that you might want to look into- if you haven't already. The people at the Kansas Land Institute don't just delineate the problems but use real science to to come up with solutions.
If you don't have time to read all about them on their website, they are included in a PBS program called "This American Land". If you go to the home page of landinstitute.org then click on the Hot Topics area, then click on: PBS "This American Land" episode 108. Info about them is from about 00:06:45 - 00:12:00
This could help round out info for your program.
Nancy
That was a well written article on organic agriculture- showing both sides- basically
There is another organization that is involved in real solutions to sustainable agriculture that you might want to look into- if you haven't already. The people at the Kansas Land Institute don't just delineate the problems but use real science to to come up with solutions.
If you don't have time to read all about them on their website, they are included in a PBS program called "This American Land". If you go to the home page of landinstitute.org then click on the Hot Topics area, then click on: PBS "This American Land" episode 108. Info about them is from about 00:06:45 - 00:12:00
This could help round out info for your program.
Nancy
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