Organic farming could kill billions of people.

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No, I DO have a comment ...

I would sooner die by organic farming than the pesticide-induced hell on earth I am suffering now. (If I were gifted a CHOICE, that is.) And speaking of choice: Misinformation and ignorance do many things ... but most abhorrent to me is the annihilation of the ability to make informed decisions.

Reason Magazine Online, June 5, 2002

Organic Alchemy Organic farming could kill billions of people.

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' As the Cambridge chemist Emsley recently concluded, "The greatest catastrophe that the human race could face this century is not global warming but a global conversion to ‘organic farming’--an estimated 2 billion people would perish." '

is Reason's science correspondent and the editor of Earth Report 2000: Revisiting the True State of the Planet(McGraw-Hill)

http://reason.com/rb/rb060502.shtml