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June 16, 2005
Grocery Store Wars
I don't know if any of you besides Dianna are interested in agriculture, but I thought you might want to watch Store Wars, a flash movie about organic farming along the same lines as the anti-factory farming The Meatrix.
I've heard the argument made that organic farming is a kind of self-indulgent, irresponsible luxury, though -- that the United States has so much wealth and arable land that we can use a lot of it for organic crops, which as you probably know have a lesser yield than crops with pesticides/herbicides -- and we should use the land instead to maximize yield and feed as many people as possible, even if the foods aren't organic.
Maybe I'll ask an agricultural scientist about it sometime.