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RE: The Organic Fraud

in #steemstem5 years ago

Great post, you make a lot of valid points about the fear mongering that surrounds the hype of organic products. However, you bring up the argument that organic farming will deplete the soils of their essential nutrients, which is only partly valid. Organic farmers can, and many tend to, rotate crops and fields so that nutrients are replenished. Though, it is difficult to do this on an industrial sized scale. This is why it’s important to eat local, as @lemouth mentioned. Industrial sized operations tend towards monoculturing which in and of itself is disasterous. Many local farmers tend towards the same, but it is becoming more prevalent to work with co-supportive and symbiotic organisms. Farms are able to produce more with less land and less input from the farmer as far as the addition of nutrients and pesticides.

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Thanks for a valid input. Hope the readers will go through the comments too.

I agree 100%. Organic is now an industry too, and the bad points are now compensating the good ones in many cases.

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