Alfonso

Actually, lots of organic farms do NOT use illegals. Do you have a source for this? It is better for workers AND consumers to do as much organic, and LOCAL when possible, as they can afford.

I don’t think you’ve kept up on organic production. General Mills is the biggest producer of it in the country, and WalMart is the biggest large buyer.

Devyn

I’m a vegan but only because I think humans are worse than other animals.

Brett

I grow my own organic food..

Izabelle

Lots of good corn fed steroid free venison.
I help the environment by thinning the herd and helping reduce deaths due to disease and starvation.

Tyson

I eat regular food. I feed my kids regular food. I will eat a big fat greasy American cheeseburger with extra cheese on it and fries next to it. I eat pizza. I’ll eat whatever, I don’t care how high my cholesterol goes. To hell with being an organic freak.

Luciano

Jeez, you have a problem with everything don’t you?

Skyla

I eat crap food because I make $12,000 a year. One day I shall eat healthier but for now give me back my Easy Mac!

Scarlet

I buy my meat at a local butcher shop which slaughters it’s own meat, and I buy my vegetables at a local market from farmers who grow the crops themselves locally, or I grow them myself.

Eggs, milk, butter and other staples are bought at a chain store, and specialty items such as Korean or Mexican are bought at a tiny little store off of a college campus which imports them.

These decisions aren’t based Enviromental factors, but rather in supporting local businesses and communities as much as I can.

Chaya

organic

Joanna

There probably doing a lot of male ‘69′ (pa yuck)

Tristen

Who cares? If Bush is for feeding the poor, I’m against it.

“Lawmakers this year failed to pass President George W. Bush’s January proposal to buy food closer to starving people rather than shipping American produce. “

Kale

Wow you have a lot of misinformation in your statement. It;’s like you went to the Hudson institution site and used their ideas.

Organic farming does use fertilizers such as rock powders, compost, manures (conventional farms use a lot of raw manure but unlike organic farms it is not regulated at all so can be used any time right up until harvest), green manures, etc.. The very basis for good organic farm management is based on growing healthy soil. It is true that organic farms do not use salt based fertilizers that do nothing for soil health. The illegal immigrants are more often used on conventionally manage farms, no organic. yields on organic farms for grains are about the same as conventional except in drought conditions when organic farms tend to yield 50% more than conventional according to the Rodale Institute that has been doing a side by side study of organic corn and soy vs conventional corn and soy over the past 25 years. When we talk about divers organic farms growing grains, livestock and produce yields are around 10x more than conventional farms doing mono cropping (which is around 99% of the conventional farms in N America).

growing “ordinary” (you mean conventional) food does not take less land than organic. there is zero proof of this other than unsubstantiated claims by Dennis and Alex Avery of the Hudson institute

GMO crops are designed to do a lot of things and have failed in almost every case. They have been proven not to yield more than conventional grain crops. they use more not less herbicides as more and more weeds become “superweeds” (i.e. weeds resistant to glysophate). in Indai the Bt cotton crop is so bad that thousands of Indian farmers have committed ******* because the crops failed and the fact they had to buy expensive seeds and herbicides bankrupted them. I also like the fact that Monsanto takes farmers to court who save seed, something farmer have been doing for many millenia. but Monsanto says no to saving their seed and uses strong arm tactics to stop farmers see may 2008 issue of Vanity Fair.

Also know that until recently, no controlled feeding studies were ever done with GMO foods and humans. Now there are some peer reviewed studies coming out that say eating GMO’s will kill fertility. Of course if you think there are too many humans ion the planet this is a good thing as GMO’s will shrink the human population on the planet.

ordinary farming is based on cheap and plentiful petroleum to create fertilizers, pesticides what happens to Green Revolution style agriculture when the oil runs out? How do we feed ourselves than?

I feed my family organic and locally grown food and do so knowing it is far healthier for us and the planet than conventionally raised and genetically modified foods.