Problems organic agriiculture solves
You do realize that the most common honey bees used for agriculture for both "organic" and "conventional" farms are invasive to the US? By most definitions, it's only "organic" if you twist your mouth the right way when you say it.
Not so much "organic" versus "conventional," but, as I already covered in an earlier post, the choice of variety is the cause for tastier varieties, those selected that don't have to survive transport across thousands of miles. But local food with those tastier varieties are a good thing. I plant gourmet radishes for the same reason. And GMO varieties can be both tastier and more nutritious.
If you discount the 34% greatest habitat loss to make up for crop harvest inefficiencies on average. But my argument is saying "it's better for the environment" is too simple and more a matter of ideological faith than one based on science.
Again hard to get past that 34% more land required for the same yield. Also makes an unfair comparison because it assumes conventional farming is about tilling, when a growing amount of conventional farming practice now included no-till methods.
I did just enough back breaking labor alongside migrant workers picking blue berries to know traditional methods, while romantic to some degree, also leave a lot to be desired.
That is true...and only a good thing if you enjoy paying more for food than you have to. Conventional farming during the past 80 years dramatically lowered food cost for Americans relative to income and we shouldn't do anything that reverses that trend. For the first 50 of that much of the gain was done by unsustainable brute force methods of over fertilization, bigger harvesters and irrigation. The past two decades have seen much better use of water, adoption of no-till methods and introduction of GMO crops to add resistance and other beneficial characteristics--these trends will most likely continue.
So while organic will wear the ideological "feel good" badge, defined before the science.. sustainable conventional farms based on science will continue to proliferate and unhampered by ideology become the actual sustainable farms of the future.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not dead set against organic farming...I am against the blanket assumption that it's always better just because it's "organic." Organic farming will bypass many well proven ways to make a better crop with higher efficiency and better sustainability just to keep a label.