Organic Agriculture ≠ Better: For You or the Environment Picture a world with widespread famine and polluted water. Small withered plants surrounded by weeds and pests trying to grow out of nitrogen deficient soil reeking of animal fecal matter. You seek to find the forest of your youth, that you used to play in, but it is no longer there. Instead you see only more malnourished farmland. One out of every five people are dying of hunger. You go to take a drink of water, to find it has to be filtered first to get out all the “natural” herbicides and pesticides everyone promised you would never get into the water if the whole world switched over to organic farming practices…but this isn’t what you thought you were signing up for. You knew you
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By implementing the use of organic farming, we are hurting the environment because it takes more land to produce the same amount of food. In correlation, more forests are being demolished to make room for more farmland (Keiser). It also can have bad effects on people. People who eat organic are at a much higher risk of contracting E-coli or Salmonella than people who eat conventionally grown food (Goldberg). On top of all that, if the whole farming world switched over to organics, the population could never be sustained (Lim). Each of those topics are now going to be thoroughly …show more content…
The wealthy would be skipping meals, the poor stricken with famine. Think- one out of every 5 people would be going hungry if we were to switch over to purely organic growing. Literally billions of people would be hurt if all farming practices switched over to this pseudoscientific ideology of organic farming.
Jonathon Jahner -a farm boy and an Advanced Biology teacher- has this to say about organic farming feeding the world: “there is no conceivable way that organic farming could feed our world today. Conventional farming is how we are going to feed the world- it’s what we put research into and it’s what we are good at” (Miller). Mr. Jahner is not the only one that feels that way either. Microbiologist Norman E. Borlaug, who won the Nobel Peace Prize and The World Food Prize for saving “more lives than any other person who has ever lived," was also adamantly against the organic food movement
By implementing the use of organic farming, we are hurting the environment because it takes more land to produce the same amount of food. In correlation, more forests are being demolished to make room for more farmland (Keiser). It also can have bad effects on people. People who eat organic are at a much higher risk of contracting E-coli or Salmonella than people who eat conventionally grown food (Goldberg). On top of all that, if the whole farming world switched over to organics, the population could never be sustained (Lim). Each of those topics are now going to be thoroughly …show more content…
The wealthy would be skipping meals, the poor stricken with famine. Think- one out of every 5 people would be going hungry if we were to switch over to purely organic growing. Literally billions of people would be hurt if all farming practices switched over to this pseudoscientific ideology of organic farming.
Jonathon Jahner -a farm boy and an Advanced Biology teacher- has this to say about organic farming feeding the world: “there is no conceivable way that organic farming could feed our world today. Conventional farming is how we are going to feed the world- it’s what we put research into and it’s what we are good at” (Miller). Mr. Jahner is not the only one that feels that way either. Microbiologist Norman E. Borlaug, who won the Nobel Peace Prize and The World Food Prize for saving “more lives than any other person who has ever lived," was also adamantly against the organic food movement