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In reply to the discussion: Why Organic Can't Fulfill Our Food Supply Ideals [View all]CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)104. An "academic"...
...is free to criticize the private sector, that to anybody, other than you and the OP, it is obvious they figure greatly in any discussion of food production.
A "scientist" working in the private sector ISN'T free to criticize his or her boss.
Anybody even remotely aware of the years of failure, the massive efforts to obfuscate and the methods of public manipulation would know the difference between the science of the government and the opportunity of the 'academic' to look closer at the relationship of the private sector to the public responsibility of producing food.
The science would probably favour quantity over QUALITY that's why they pretend that we need GMO's to survive. Inexplicably, however, in the past 20 or so years Americans have become more interested in quality, as if the 60's generation is finally growing up. The old model of trusting chemistry to get you thru the day just sounds stupid nowadays.
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And none of that distraction has anything to do with the BS that is "organic" food marketing.
HuckleB
Mar 2015
#20
I don't understand why these continual promotions for commercial interests are allowed here.
Zorra
Mar 2015
#97
It's true that food produced under NOP certification can use synthetic substances
Major Nikon
Mar 2015
#34
I think the majority of all agriculture isn't currently using drip irrigation
Major Nikon
Mar 2015
#69
It's classic anti-GMO framing. You're not fooling anyone who actually cares about reality.
HuckleB
Mar 2015
#28
Ag products that use chemicals I imagine, as it's DuPont, which is a chemical company
gollygee
Mar 2015
#36
So anyone who has any connection to the organic industry can be summarily dismissed?
Major Nikon
Mar 2015
#66