>Lary seems to agree with you so I guess there is no difference between
>Sustainable and organice.
( deleted portion ) ... Why if its all the same?
>wHY are so many people avoiding the word organic. What is the difference?
Dick replies --
Organic production in agriculture is not necessarily sustainable.
"Sustainable agriculture" depends on many features beyond the production of
anything, such as the absence of fossil fuel inputs in the supporting
system, soil erosion practically at zero, healthy functioning ecosystem
processes, and the indirect effects in the society at large -- to mention a
few examples. As far as I know there has been no sustainable cropping
system in the world to date, even before all pesticides were invented. We
are now striving to achieve something never done before.
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