26 April 2012

Sorry, Peace Moonbeam...

...you wanna feed the starving millions... technology AND chemicals are still the obvious answer...
Crop yields from organic farming are as much as 34% lower than those from comparable conventional farming practices, the analysis finds. Organic agriculture performs particularly poorly for vegetables and some cereal crops such as wheat, which make up the lion’s share of the food consumed around the world.

"Organic systems have the potential to produce comparable yields, but in a very limited number of crops."