"One German organic farm has killed twice as many people as the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Gulf Oil spill combined."
crickets.
Small Dead Animals
I long ago rejected the idea of turning our farm into an organic operation. The requirements for organic certification lead to animal cruelty because you are not allowed to treat an animal which has an illness, say an eye infection, except maybe with homeopathic nontreatments. If properly treated, that animal is permanently disqualified, and has to be turned out into a non-organic field (in the unlikely event that it actually receives treatment). So ill animals will probably not receive treatment until they are seriously into a decline, and then they will be sold rather than treated, instead of wasting a field for their recovery.
Organic produce uses manure from these animals, so it might well contain pathogens from the untreated animals, and it will certainly contain e-coli which is contained in all cattle manure, unless it is seriously treated with expensive energy consuming processes.
If organic produce must be used, then it must be super clean if it is not cooked enough to kill the pathogens. The likelihood of removing all pathogens all the time is not good.
Like most all Leftist righteous ideological programs, there are always serious unintended consequences that have not been thought out in the heat of the passion of self-righteousness. There are similar examples in wind power (which explodes birds in the vacuum behind the blade), and flourescent lightbulb replacement for incandescents (flourescents contain mercury, although small amounts; and poor quality / short life / high prices / and probably high manufacturing energy cost, plus government wealth transfer for their promotion)... not to even mention the DDT ban and the millions who dies due that. OK I mentioned it.
Like the lottery, organic products are a tax on the ignorant.
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