and made affordable AND available to people in this country? Wouldn't that be the sensible thing to do in that it will also improve the overall health of the people in the US?
Or you don't believe in that growth hormones and pesticides, etc. have any long term health effects to anyone who chooses to eat what's grown & raised in this country?
What about laced shrimps imported from China? Knowing what they know now, why won't they discontinue importations of that? And ideas?
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AN-PAN!
Do you like this place?
I have to say that I love it very very much.
But soon everything changes,
well at least it does eventually.
Fun things, happy things,
they'll all.. they'll all eventually change someday you know,
But can you still love this place?
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doesn't the government have ENOUGH regulations already?
ReplyDeleteugh...no wonder this country is going downhill..
All I know about shrimps is that they tread water outside sewage outlets with their mouths open.
ReplyDeleteIt's actually the consumer who decides what proportion of food is grown organically by which produce they buy.
ReplyDeleteClearly, most people find that the extra price they have to pay for organic food is not worth it. This is not a matter for the government to decide what people should have as they can decide that for themselves.
Organic AND affordable? I sympathise, but your idea is pipe dream, at least for now.
ReplyDeleteThe reason that the agricultural practices you cite are used is that they make it possible to produce more food at lower cost.
There are two problems:
First, any attempt to require producers to provide organic food at current mass-market prices would force them out of business, because they'd be losing money. The only way around that would be massive agricultural subsidies, which would ultimately come from the taxpayer, thus shifting the increased cost, not eliminating it.
Second, the human population has grown so much that it's not practically possible to produce enough food for everyone without resorting to the modern agricultural practices that you cite, especially since increased population has caused significant amounts of arable land to be taken out of use and converted to urban/suburban development.
So we've got more people needing more food, but less land on which to produce it, and the food produced has to be affordable.
Right now, the only answer is modern agricultural methods. There are people trying to come up with ways to make the system work without using some of these questionable (or even dangerous) practices, but until someone comes up with a concrete way to otherwise affordably feed 7 billion people, we're more or less stuck with what we've got.