Thanks to reader Lisa from Phoenix that forwarded me this article from Huffington Post that talks about how organic eggs, dairy and meat are only organic in their feed and that there is no implication about their treatment. In other words, chickens can be treated as "cruely" as conventional chickens, it is just their feed that is organic.
Article here
I read an interesting article the other day about so called organic pesticides which are certified for use on organic food.
Article
For some reason, I thought that all farmers could use were things like ladybugs but apparently that isn't the case. There is now the question whether these organically certified pesticides may be as bad for the environment because they may not be so biodegradable, pH reactive and they may be adding to the salt levels of the soil. It is worth a read.
This is an amazing interview I can across by the late Norman Borlaug that basically makes the claim that organic agriculture is unsustainable because there isn't enough nitrogen available from organic sources. In other words there isn't enough poop (fertilizer) being produced to provide enough nitrogen in the soil if organic agriculture was the predominant agriculture modality.
Yes, it is from Reason magazine the mouthpiece of the Libertarian movement (yes, that does make it suspect) but on the other hand, this guy won the Nobel Peace prize in the 1970 for AGRICULTURE because the Nobel Committee declared that he did so much to bring about peace through developing farming methods to radically reduce starvation. He is said to be responsible for saving billions (yes, with a "b") lives through his work:
Here is the article:
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