My issue with organic gardening is that it identifies the issue; conventional agriculture uses pesticides to the detriment of the environment, but then borks it at the last second by subscribing to an appeal to nature fallacy where synthetic chemical pesticides are inherently bad, while naturally derived pesticides are inherently good.
This leads to the nonsense which is large scale organic farms using just as much if not greater quantities of pesticides in the same monoculture systems instead of designing farms in such a way that less pesticide use is necessary. At the end of the day they still get to slap an organic label on their produce and benefit from the green-washing.
Organic farming does not allow for artifical fertilizers, which is made from natural gas. That is a huge advantage and proably the biggest difference in yields.
Yeah that’s definitely a huge plus. I don’t want to appear as though i dislike everything about organic farming. There is a lot to like about it, I just feel as though it can be held back by arbitrary standards.
My issue with organic gardening is that it identifies the issue; conventional agriculture uses pesticides to the detriment of the environment, but then borks it at the last second by subscribing to an appeal to nature fallacy where synthetic chemical pesticides are inherently bad, while naturally derived pesticides are inherently good.
This leads to the nonsense which is large scale organic farms using just as much if not greater quantities of pesticides in the same monoculture systems instead of designing farms in such a way that less pesticide use is necessary. At the end of the day they still get to slap an organic label on their produce and benefit from the green-washing.
Organic farming does not allow for artifical fertilizers, which is made from natural gas. That is a huge advantage and proably the biggest difference in yields.
Yeah that’s definitely a huge plus. I don’t want to appear as though i dislike everything about organic farming. There is a lot to like about it, I just feel as though it can be held back by arbitrary standards.