Tag: organic agriculture

Cereal Crimes

Cereal Crimes, a report by Cornucopia Institute, explores the vast differences between organic cereal and granola products and so-called natural products, which contain ingredients grown on conventional farms where the use of toxic pesticides and genetically engineered organisms is widespread. Analysis reveals that “natural” products—using conventional ingredients—often are priced higher than equivalent organic products. This suggests that some companies are taking advantage of consumer confusion.

Are we compromising our crops’ immune systems?

Are we causing an immune deficiency in our crops? The conventional industrial ag system may be killing the community of microbes that act as our crops’ immune system. The organic philosophy of crop nutrition begins with proper care and nourishment of the organisms responsible for the soil microbes’ digestive process.

eOrganic – NOT your father’s county extension agent!

Thank goodness today’s “Extension Service” has no relationship to the ag extension agent once portrayed on the Green Acres TV show that ran in the late 1960s and early 1970s. eOrganic – the 21st-century version – looks nothing like your father’s extension service.

Organic Farming is Good for the Earth

Skeptics have often misrepresented a biologically-based agriculture as if it is nothing but the substitution of purchased organic inputs for purchased chemical inputs. Despite the popular assumption that it sprang full born from the delusions of 60s hippies, it has a more extensive, and scientifically respectable, provenance.