Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Organic Food, Food Crisis & the Environment

Is organic food good for your health and good for the environment?

I recently came across an interesting article on WebMD, which tells us the myths about organic food. I reproduce part of it here…

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MYTH #1: ORGANIC FOOD IS ALWAYS BETTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.

Organics don't contaminate soil and groundwater with pesticides and chemicals like regular farming does, but there's a surprising downside: Since organic farming is only about half as productive as conventional farming, it requires far more land to produce the same amount of food. Dennis Avery of the Hudson Institute's Center for Global Food Issues estimates that modern high-yield farming has saved 15 million square miles of wildlife habitat, and that if the world switched to organic farming, we'd need to cut down 10 million square miles of forest. Less-productive farming could also lead to even less food for the world's undernourished.

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To read the full article, click the link below:

6 Myths About Organic Food


Now, with mercury rising and food crisis looming, do you still think organic food is the way to go?

18 comments:

  1. a very hard decision indeed....>.<"

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    ;)

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    pls go n look for it

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  4. Interesting clarifications.

    Tasted organic food once. I found the vegetables quite big, especially the bean sprouts. =p

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  5. 迷迭香
    Yes, very hard decision. I think the best way to go organic is to grow veggie at our backyards.

    悦子
    Thanks.

    shingo
    That's surprising...
    I've never tested organic food. I thought the veggie would be smaller because no chemical fertilizer was used.

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  6. How ler like that? Plant on the moon, can ah?

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  7. neo
    If we can plant under the sea that is good enough.

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  9. I think every decision we are supposed to make will have two polarised effects. Hmm...

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  10. Organic food is such because they don't use fertilizers.

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  11. kyh
    That's why we need to strike a balance. But that is also not easy...

    宝茹
    I understand that, but don't criticize people if they don't support organic food.

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  12. This is really a hard choice to make. Cutting down forest VS use of pesticides, which to choose? Why not mix the 2 together? In what I call as semi-organic.

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  13. Organic food is healthy but i don't like to eat coz no taste haha~ ^^ Thanks for sharing.

    p/s: sorry cant leave msg in c box using office laptop, regard the photo competition, you can send whatever photos you like, steal from other also can. Tomorrow last day, be quick~ =)

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  14. jam
    I also think semi-organic is the best.

    chobits
    Healthy food usually don't taste good :-(

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  15. organic food not tasty? is sweeter le.
    btw, i support neo, hahaha....lets plant on the moon:P then our moon will become green colour ...hahaha

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  16. sinji
    Green moon? That looks like ghost movie (-_-")

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  17. I'm not criticizing. I'm just stating a fact.

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  18. This is interesting! Thanks for sharing! : )

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