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- From: kilennj@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Nicholas J. Kilen 1621537)
- Subject: The cost of organic farming
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- Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:33:54 GMT
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- Back to Organic agriculture. A poster once mentioned that maybe we
- should pay a little more for our food so that it can be organic. Right
- now the percentage spent by Americans and Canadians of their income on
- food hovers between 12.1-14.5%. Compare that to that spent on food by
- those members of the former Soviet Union and China who have very few,
- if any, chemicals on their agricultural products. They spend between
- 60-70% (possibly more in the new Soviet Union, the figures are a year
- old) on food.
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- Until someone can convince the agricultural community that organic
- farming can compare in price to chemical farming, things will not
- change. In addition, there is still the problem of keeping insects from
- destroying crops and leaving the world in a state of famine.
-
- Nicholas J. Kilen
- kilennj@cda.mrs.umn.edu
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- Destroy the cities and leave the farms, and the cities will spring back
- again as if by magic. Destroy the farms and leave the cities and I will
- guarantee there will be grass growing in every street in America.
- Agriculture may be a cross, but it is a cross of gold and one we all
- must bear.
- William Jennings Bryan
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