Do not reverse the facts: fashion is bio ...
Organic is not a fashion but an awareness.
Ecology, considered as a fad of babacool, has turned into a humanitarian emergency. These kids who come out of school to claim a better future, but who looks rather black, only find that
their elders did not realize, they, the urgency of changing the ways of doing things instituted by the economy and the economy alone. Whether in agriculture, medicine or simply energy wasting pollutant.
which stems from a desire of the consumers, based on the notions of common sense but which in reality is based on empirical notions,
Organic farming, the real, the most organic, is based on the work of qualified agronomists, not on DIY amateur gardeners. Except to consider that agriculture, in general, is empirical too.
also uses pesticides that are sometimes more harmful to the environment and in large crops causes more soil erosion (mechanical fight against weeds)
and go again ! Adventist issues usually arise when farming changes when nature recovers. But most Adventists are repairers of human stupidity with its selective cultures. Did had to develop this point there !?
and impoverishment due to the fact that exports are not sufficiently offset by inputs.
This aspect only occurs when the meaning and role of the AB (not the logo) is misunderstood and farmers converted to organic (salon label) have understood nothing of the reasons and meaning of this change.
KS even talks about yield divided by 5.
It does not mean anything because it's like comparing an obese 5 times heavier than a lambda individual of the same size. Their weight is actually different, but being overweight is not a sign of health.
That's why in France, 5% who make are only attracted by the higher selling prices and the premium ... that the state has a lot of trouble paying.
Reasoning breathed by Big phyto from start to finish! It is true that some are motivated by the higher selling price, but this also requires a lot more work and therefore labor. High price is not synonymous with profit especially as most farms are not huge to catch up on quantity. But organic productions are sufficient, on a national scale like ours, to feed
SA population, not to export for any purpose.
For my part, what annoys me is usually a powerful Manichean spirit of some supporters of Bio, which is reminiscent of the hours of Maccarthyism or the subtlety of GW Bush: if you're not with us then you're the axis of evil.
If there may be exaggeration (which, for what seems exaggeration is only from the point of view of the conventional) in a sense, this does not justify either exaggeration in the other.
If everyone went "Bio" we would surely see an emergence of "super organic" with arguments like "true original Bio" or let's find out what.
This is what Did claims with his "
More than organic "(Understood by the label that should have been specified). In all societies, any initial requirement is misguided for many reasons that are ignorant most often.
For the anecdote: a maraicher came to offer me bio (40 years ago), but when I told him that in order to market it, (before the organic label) he would have to respect the rules of bio defined by the associations of organic farmers, of that time, (kind Nature and Progress) and so he should wait 5 years before hoping to sell his products in organic and again if there was more remanence of the products that he was currently using.
I did not hear about it anymore. For him bio meant more chemicals, that's all!
These criticisms should not, however, hide the fact that the whole Bio movement has constituted and still constitutes a saving spur to move opinions and consciences. As I have said elsewhere, the best organic producers I know in my field, they are sacred technicians and in their case, the best benefit of organic was to encourage them to ask questions about what he was doing , why, and how.
absolutely! But only now with the explosion of ecology in its different aspects. Before the bio was combaattu, ridiculed with the same arguments as today, but the people are less and less entreated to trap junk food and claim more quality
"We make science with facts, like making a house with stones: but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré