Originally Posted by TYSON' date='May 19 2004, 09:42 AM

Unless you intend to lead the fight to reduce the population of the world by a SIGNIFICANT amount, there is no way we can rely on "organically" raised food. Yields are incredibly low, and really won't get any better.



"Organic" farms surrounded by farms that use chemicals benefit from those chemicals, whether they admit it or not. If your weedy little patch of lettuce is 5 miles from the next weedy patch of lettuce, it makes it much harder for weed seeds and insects to move onto your crop. Once those chemical using farms change over, the spread of weeds and insects is far easier.



The chemicals and toxins you're concerned about are used, no argument, but when I see some retarded housewife picking through the sad looking produce in the "organic" section and then climb back in her Expedition to drive 3 blocks home it makes me laugh.



I'll generalize here from my own observations and point out that many of these same people buy bottled water, paying up to $2 per litre. BOTTLED WATER IS TAP WATER!!! There are no laws governing what is in bottled water unless they claim it is distilled, then it must be distilled. Yet they think they're getting some kind of health benefit from buying water.





If you:



drink alcohol



smoke ANYTHING



barbecue ANYTHING



drive a car



live in, or close to, an urban area



or use household cleaning products



you've got bigger health concerns than what was used to produce your food.