"Organic" Is The Latin Word For "Grown In Pig Shit" - Small Dead Animals:
"Organic farming is sold as good for the environment.
This is correct for a single farm field: organic farming uses less energy, emits less greenhouse gasses, nitrous oxide and ammonia and causes less nitrogen leeching than a conventional field.
But each organic field yields much, much less.
So, to grow the same amount of wheat, spinach or strawberries, you need much more land.
That means that average organic produce results in the emission of about as many greenhouse gasses as conventional produce; and about 10 per cent more nitrous oxide, ammonia and acidification. Worse, to produce equivalent quantities, organic farms need to occupy 84 per cent more land - land which can't be used for forests and genuine nature reserves.
For example, to produce the amount of food America does today, but organically, would require increasing its farmland by the size of almost two United Kingdoms.
That is the equivalent of eradicating all parklands and wild lands in the lower 48 states."
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