On 09/07/2013 08:58, Janet wrote:
In article ,
says...

One major difference is that the Organic(TM) seed comes with a nice
selection of interesting diseases and fungi contamination that the
conventional ones would have been treated against.

How surprising then that Organic crop producers (and seed merchants
like Etty's) manage to harvest any crops at all and manage to make a
longterm sustainable living.

Not really. The reason for their "success" is simply that the vast
majority of crop and seed producers use chemicals to kill off pests and
diseases, and these ringfence the organic producers. The organic
producers are effectively protected by a chemical wall around them.

Remove that protective wall, and everything comes tumbling down -
including the organic producers. If you want the world to be short of
food, go totally organic. If you don't believe that, then you obviously
don't associate potato blight with the Irish Potato Famine.

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Jeff