organic farming

Here is a chance to CRUSH a lot of the woo I have found on this forum. Everything from the doubters of Organic being science based, to Holistic management being woo, to countless posts claiming we can't feed the world without haber process nitrogen, to AGW not being able to be mitigated simply...

I was talking to someone about high speed rail today (which you all may know I support more than any other political initiative in my life) and we got on the subject of obstructionist farmers. I noted how strange it was that some farmers are so eager to sell their land so the train can be built...

A couple new things being "discovered" about how organic works. Submitted for discussion. Personally I have been taking advantage of many of these things for a long time. But my observations don't reach the standard of science. Nice to see real science finally catching up and beginning to...

Hi, I'm brand new here. I found this forum last night, as I was searching for information about this very topic. So, given that this is a community of critical thinkers, I need you to help me out. I want to feed myself and my family food that will do the best possible job keeping us well --...

I have always felt that the term "Organic" was silly and as currently used more marketing hype then a worthwhile label. Now science is being applied to "going green" will it result in real and measurable results? Beyond Organic

OK, so my town's newspaper has a food site, which in turn has several food blogs. The most recent article is about how margarine is bad for you. Now, it might well be, I wouldn't know, but the author seemed to use as her main arguments that margarine was 'industry-produced' and a 'surrogate', as...

Cue the anecdotal accounts (i.e. "I recently switched to all organic produce and it immediately cured my asthma, arthritis, scurvy, etc.") in 3. . . 2. . . 1 . . .

Latest attempt to make Obama look like Stalin falls on its face; http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/blogs/healthy-food/organic-farming-440320604

I just spotted this paper claiming that organic farming can be very productive, more so in developing copuntries. This is sharply at variance from all the other reliable data I have seen, which mostly says that it is about 50% as productive as conventional farming. Are there any agriculturalists...

I'm starting a new thread to discuss organic berries, because I posted this link in another thread: http://www.theorganicreport.com/pages/261_why_choose_organic_strawberries_.cfm and it was described as propaganda. The site is certainly biased toward organic food (noticed the name of the...