is organic agriculture always sustainable?
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Question by John: is organic agriculture always sustainable?
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According to the international organic farming organisation IFOAM : “The role of organic agriculture, whether in farming, processing, distribution, or consumption, is to sustain and enhance the health of ecosystems and organisms from the smallest in the soil to human beings.”
So, by definition, organic agriculture is sustainable. If it isn’t sustainable, it isn’t organic.
Co-incidentally, anyone who tells you to stop eating meat or animal products is advocating unsustainable agriculture:
Vegetables cannot be grown without some sort of fertiliser.
Artificial fertiliser is unsustainable.
Natural fertiliser – manure – only comes from farm-reared animals and (treated) human sewage.
Sewage is available in insufficient quantities for a sustainable system.
Rearing animals simply for their manure is unsustainable and very wasteful.
co2_emissions
October 31, 2011 at 4:22 pm
by design and concept, organic agriculture should be sustainable. if it is not then it is not organic agriculture.
jump
October 31, 2011 at 5:02 pm
If your rich or just happen to like fat bugs.
horgurce
October 31, 2011 at 5:08 pm
Organic agriculture is sustainable, you dont need to eat meet to get animal manure. Cows/Buffalos raised for their milk also provide manure so do horses ,cats,dogs,humans and all living animals(we all throw out waste).
Compost (organic manure) is also made from unused plant material (dry leaves,branches,sawdust) , waste food etc. So anyone who tells you that meat eating is a part of organic sustainable cycle is bluffing.
funnysam2006
October 31, 2011 at 5:25 pm