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[Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>]

I suppose it was my contribution that led to this flurry of discussion but my original statement was misrepresented entirely.  I never said that orgnanic growers are unscientific.  I said that the organic orthodoxy is at its core anti-science.  Not because some chemicals aren't in fact terrible for the environment and perhaps the human organism, but the idea that they all are.  That is to say that the absolutist position that all synthetic molecules are taboo for an agriculture to be correct and fully virtuous is a naive and arbitrary concept- the more so when it is held by the same people who depend on man-made chemicals in every other aspect of their existence.

 

If organic agriculture was instead defined as a method of growing food without the use of any poisons, I would at least consider the concept less abrasive to my sense of logic.

 

That said, I originally made my statement as an example of the kind of thing that usually ends badly when discussed on this list- in the same general category as the climate-change, global warming blah, blah, blah.  (I'm not dismissing either side of the argument with the blah, blah blah- just expressing my boredom with the discussion as practiced on this site).