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Lifer
- Jul 2, 2001
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Originally posted by: theNEOone
there should be an iq requirement to be a member of this board, christ.
Personal attacks for not simply accepting what you say uncritically. Real nice.
let me ask you, do you feel that you're smarter than the researchers at Cornell that conducted a 20 year study that found that yields were comparable between organic and coventional? or the Swiss researchers that concluded that, although organic methods produced 20% less yield, they were 50% more energy efficient? or how about the survey by the US government that found that organic methods had virtually the same yields as conventional methods? or perhaps hooked-on-phonics didn't work for you.
More petty insults and no real critical answer to my question. Why would you do what when you can just insult your opponent? I ask again, WHY would agribusinesses, who have plenty of intelligent people voluntarily choose to lose money? Either the research is incorrect, the conclusions drawn are incomplete, or all the people working in the actual field hate the environment so much, and so irrationally that they are willing to live less comfortably because of it.
your argument about the incentive for companies to follow the most cost efficient route is void of the obvious fact that agribusinesses have invested trillions of dollars over the past several decades in very specific equipment, studies, land aquisitions, technology, etc. all geared towards conventional farming methods and that these investments cannot be easily ported over to organic farming. it's not such a cut a dry argument to say, "well, if it was actually more efficient to farm using organic methods, then businesses would already be doing it!"
That makes no sense. There are plenty of farms that HAVE invested in alternative, organic methods. They are still unable to compete of a price basis with agribusinesses, which they necessarily would if they were actually more economically efficient. And if that was the case, then the agribusinesses would have already changed their ways, simply to survive.
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Now, this time can you respond to me without childish name calling?