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"David Hare-Scott" wrote: songbird wrote: we have wandered far afield, Only to those not paying attention. My point about organic, before you launched into your unsupported attack on "organic", was the when you get organic, you get more nutrients into your diet. If the enhanced nutrition of "organic" kept you from getting sick, then that would be a good deal wouldn't it? There are an increasing number of studies showing enhanced levels of vitamins in organic produce. More over vitamins have only been recognized for about 100 years. Now there appears to be another class of compounds, flavonols http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavonoid, which are important to human health. We wondered from your field to point out that part of the benefit of growing organic was to eat healthier foods. Cheap food that lets you get sick isn't such a good deal. Or as they say about Americans, we are over fed and under nourished. but i'm going to return and ask about the two calorie output vs one Billy pulled out of ? If you don't have my 9:46 AM post from today, I'll happily repost it for you. I would be interested to see that too. and the other question for Billy is how does organic gardening sequester carbon dioxide? Also in the 9:46 AM post I am guessing that in the long term organic horticulture has only a mild effect in storage. If you have 10% organic material in your soil you are sequestering more carbon than if you have 1% but it isn't going to be a big carbon sink. Assuming that you can still feed the numbers required. OTOH if you don't use all the chemferts that require energy to manufacture then you are saving some at that end. Long story short, charcoal can last 50,000 years, and it can have the added benefit of improving the fertility of the soil. -- - Billy "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/2...al_crime_scene |
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