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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Big Ag's Big Lie About Organic Food
  • Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:27:12 -0600


Now there you've hit on something people don't know and don't care about.
With industrial agribusiness much of the fruit and vegetable produce is
tossed before it ever reaches processing or shipping, then some damaged in
transit is lost. We only want flawless produce seen in the store. Then in
the store the stuff gets tossed again when it gets too old to sell. But
that's not the end. At home some of it goes bad before anyone uses it, and
after meals some ends up in the disposal. Don't even get me started on the
uneaten garbage from restaurants. So how much food does it REALLY take to
feed us? I'd venture that what we take the trouble to grow at home gets
eaten. Anyone?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 7/1/2009 at 8:20 PM Liz wrote:

>And there is another reason. Two other reasons, actually, but one is an
>indirect result of the other. In the so-called "developed" world, much of
>the food is wasted, either before its end-user purchase or afterward. And
>there is a substantial and growing gulf between people who can afford to
>waste food, and continue to do it, and people who can barely afford to buy

>it to begin with. Take away those two problems, and there would be more
>available food for everyone. The trouble is that no amount of legislation
>would fix either one of them, and the people causing the problems are
>oblivious to social protest.
>
>Liz
>http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com
>
>> The reason why there's such a stark difference between the developed
>and developing world is not because organic magically produces more
>in developing nations. Rather, it is because the farmers in those
>countries often lack the crop inputs used in the developed world to
>obtain such high yields. As the inputs used in the U.S. involve a LOT
>of oil, a resource we are running out of, this says to me that our
>best route to maximum yields in the future is going organic now.
>
>
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