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Why is organic farming bad, isn't that right if? We were said that organic farming is good for our health. The supporters have trumpeted the message that organic farming is good for the environment. How could it be probably bad?

It seems that, more and more, life is divided in traditional and alternate. Every side claims their methods to be better than the other. Each tries to win people to their side. Traditional education fights the education of alternate one. Conventional medicine fights parallel medicines. The culture of principal current fights of the under alternate cultures.

Farming, also, is implied in a fight, a conventional farming against organic farming. The ecologists and these interested with their health assure us that organic farming is preferable in a lot in a manner. But of others dispute themselves that organic farming is bad.

Why is organic farming bad?

The research Results

In 2002, the Swiss scientists to the Institute of Research for Organic Farming published in "Scientific" an extremely published study. Their study, that covered 21 years, compared four types of farming. Two of these types were organic farming. The other two types was conventional farming.

The journalists declared quickly that the study proved organic farming was more effective. The organic defenders of farming said that the study showed to this organic farming uses 50% less than energy. The facts?

1. Conventional farming is 20 percent more productive farming than organic.

2. The harvest yields were in a significant way lower in organic farming.

3. The above two facts meant that the energy economies in organic farming were in fact only almost 19 percent by the unity of produced harvest, not 50 percent.

4. The study did not try organic farming against the methods more current of conventional farming. If it had, the said experts, the advantage of 19 percent of organic farming would disappear.

5. The current farming conventional equals organic farming when it is a matter of the ecological advantages. The two have advantageous insects, less than pesticide of products and the fertilizer streaming, and reduce erosion of ground.

6. The food quality was almost identical in conventional and organic farming. Defender of them organic farming had claimed a long time their food was the superior removed one.

7. The current methods conventional of farming produce the same or bigger yields mentioned in number 1 above.

This not done research, of course, conclude that organic farming is bad. On the face of him, the conclusion is more than organic farming is not very different of the current farming conventional. It there does more have other reasons for the people that believes than organic farming is bad.

Organic farming Can Kill

A lot took Switzerland studies a realization that, as Cambridge the chemist John Emsley said, "the biggest catastrophe than the human race could do facing this century is not the warming of the atmosphere, but a global conversion to 'organic farming' - [where] an estimated 2 billion people perisies".

Organic farming can furnish food for the small markets, but how can it nourish nations that to die hunger? Its opponents claim that the current farming conventional is the only hope for these people. If we turn completely to organic farming, they say, we will condemn billions to die famine.

Challenge Organic Farming

Alex Avery, the Director of Research and Education for the Center of the Institute of Hudson for the Global Problems of Food, published recently a new book, "The Truth OF Organic Foods". (2006) In this book, Avery offers to an impassive one looks at the curious origins and the basis not very scientific for organic farming.

The Price of Peace of Scientific Winning Agricultural Nobel, Dr. Norman Borlaug, says of this book, "The Truth OF Organic Foods gives of the a meticulous and frank explanation the why consumers the organic foods does not offer any true healths or the advantages of security. In an important way, Avery communicates why the yields of farming and organic lower confidences on organic rare the fertilizers represent a threat potentielle to the forests of the world, the earths maredcageuses and the prairies. The book offers proof scientifically of the solid that the conventional foods more reasonable are healthy for the families and the so good stewardship of nature".

Ecredmer delivers it Mr. Avery, the one finds declarations that indicate:

1. Organic farming began in the years 20 when a German mystical advised usage of only animal manure because the synthetic fertilizers did not have cosmic energy.

2. Soon, the products manure fertilized, net and rich were better.

3. J.je. Rodale published first his "the Magazine of Organic Gardening" in 1942, and farming organic/the movement of organic gardening was named.

4. In 2007, the organic defenders of farming has not always believable science to support their convictions.

5. Organic farming does not avoid pesticides. Almost 5 percent a weight of the vegetable is natural, certain pesticides of which one these are talkative cancer.

6. The foods of organic farming have bacteria more of talkative disease. (The problem January 2007 of "the Reports of Consumer" showed to this chicken of organic farming has 300% more Salmonella than that of conventional farming. The university studies found more bacteria in the vegetables of organic farming than in the vegetables of conventional farming.

7. If organic farming, that disparages synthetic fertilizer, was chosen on conventional farming, we would have a choice. We could kill millions of people to reduce global needs of food, or we could sacrifice the wildlife habitat in the quantity of millions of square miles if we could produce more manure.

Why is organic farming bad? Mr. Avery believes that it has the response.

In spite of the new book of Mr. Avery, I am not sure so organic farming that the is bad or not. This is often difficult to sort by the fact of rhetoric and discovered. I know that my ancestors had big organic farms. The products were good and it nourished. Before I can lit my back completely organic farming and the organic gardening, I need the clearer proof. You want to do probably more of research, also.