Comment by bluGill
1 day ago
Bill gates is one of the largest farmland owners in the world (or at least was - I last checked about 10 years ago...) He hires people to work on his farm, and managers to manage it. Food is the most important thing for modern society and the reports I have suggest he is trying to raise food in the most sustainable fashion possible (organic is often not sustainable)
Why is organic not suatsinable? Not affordable I get. But does organic damage the environment making it hard to farm again? or use inputs that are not sustainable?
Genuine question. I am alway curious when a statement goes against conventional wisdom.
Organic allows some really nasty chemicals that build up in the soil because they were used 200 years ago. Organic often substitutes plowing for weed killer - this is both bad for the air - more CO2 - and plowing destroys the soil.
if organic finds something good conventional farming adopts it.
conventional farming is developed at research universities. Organic is developed in cities by people who know nothing about farming, and often have an agenda.
not that conventional farming is all good. And even where it is better not all farmers do what is best. However organic is not a step better.
Thanks. Are there good links for this topic?
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Organic is literally throwing out a ton of modern technology that makes farming scalable and able to sustain the population at its current numbers.
Organic was never about sustainability, so I’m not sure why you think that’s against conventional wisdom. Organic has always been “chemicals bad so we do things the old fashioned way”