Posted by
Rich from NW Indiana on Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:00:59 PM
The spinach scare of 2006 will most likely be the way most will remember this story. Most will not remember that the spinach in question was organic. Because most won't even know it was organic spinach. I didn't know until I read this article by
Nick Nicols today. I wasn't surprised that I hadn't.
Organic Farming is widely told to the world by environmental groups to be so much better then regular farming. Cleaner, safer and better for you. Never mind that the American farming industry has created the safest, cleanest, most affordable food supply the world has ever seen. Nope it time to go back to the stone age and have a expensive, unsafe, scant, food supply again.
Its organic farming dirty little secret. Organic farming isn't very clean at times. Why did farmers go away from "organic" farming to begin with? Because it didn't work very well. Organic farming alone cannot feed the world. Plus it is too expensive for most.
Never heard this before? I am not surprised. Its one of the many stories that the "mainstream media" has missed. Since organic farming is popular with the media crowd these days, you probably won't any time soon. No they are in on it, allowing the environmentalists to chip away at the regular, everyday, food industry.
That's yet another story you will not hear from the "mainstream media". How the environmental lobby is trying the end the regular food supply and its industry. Here is one example, Starbucks was the
targeted company (go figure on that one). Sometimes they manage to shoot
themselves in the foot too when trying to regulate the rest of us.
Nick, you are right that environmental (and other) activists need to learn some social responsibilities. But it will be hard to do because the media won't call them on it. Until there is serious reform in the media these type of things will go on.