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Organic becoming a better economic option due to oil prices?

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Re: Organic becoming a better economic option due to oil pri

Unread postby manu » Sun 11 May 2008, 02:37:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cashmere', 'N')arz, you're right. I was wrong to use "vegan". I should have stuck with "organic".

If Vegans are OK with biotech food, non-organic food, and products tested on animals, then they'll be fine.

My point is, with prices rising, all groups will be driven toward the lower cost.

As for Killjoy -

Explain to me what extra labor is required to grow and harvest apples "organically"?

It seems to me that the only difference between an organic apple orchard and a non org. apple orchard is the yield per hectare and the cost of energy inputs. How much could certification cost? Certainly not a large portion of the difference in price.


Depending on where you are at and the size of your farm the certification could be a problem. Anyway, it should all be natural, no artificial anything (pesticides, fertilizer, ect.) and in a few more years will be. Except in the area's where the radiation is lingering from the nuclear bombs.
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Re: Organic becoming a better economic option due to oil pri

Unread postby cube » Sun 11 May 2008, 04:39:57

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', '.')..
Let me repeat: the organics "movement," as it is currently practiced, is not interested in planning for a "sustainable," fossil-energy-reduced future. It is interested in hyping over-priced "toxin-free" carrots to gullible Prius drivers.
I used to live in Seattle and yeah that was what my gut feeling was telling me too.

I find it disappointing that much of the environmental movement today has very little to do with helping the environment and more to do with sexing up statistics and selling over-priced goods to yuppie urban liberals who are the only ones who could afford such things.

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