I snipped two sections from the article Ericka sent us to. I did think the
blurb about eating more fruits and veggies that are good for you and maybe
anti cancer was interesting: but what about the possible trade off of
ingesting more pesticides? Second paragraph below I believe this "info" was
lifted from the 20/20 show. In reality what are the yields conventional vs
organic? Our garden seems bountiful enough. And blaming weeds for the
necessity of using more land like we've got summer squash winding its way
around a field of weeds strugglely to survive, there are other methods
besides chemicals so that one doesn't have weeds duh?. Thanks for the link
Ericka. Beth
from this page http://www.acsh.org/press/editorials/organicfood021700.html
:
One of the more solid findings on the relationship of diet and cancer is
that the more fruits and vegetables eaten, the lower the risk of a variety
of cancers including stomach, colon, prostate and lung. If artificial
pesticide residues on plants are so harmful and carcinogenic, why do the
people who eat the most wind up being the healthiest?
Organic farming seems intuitively better for the environment due to the lack
of chemicals used, but the reduced yields compared to conventional farming
are an important trade-off in deciding if this is really an improvement.
Organic farmers justify higher prices because they have lower yields; weeds
and insects compete with the crops more effectively. It has been estimated
that twice as much land would have to be farmed with organic methods to
produce the same amount of food we currently grow. That much farmable land
does not exist.
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