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Re:Study finds organic food no more nutritive than non-organic by kalleboo on Monday September 03, 2012 @08:50PM (#4472520)
> It is, after-all, how farming developed over thousands of years

You may be right about it being safe, but I'd be careful about using this logic. Over "thousands of years", we had a life expectancy at birth of 30 years, indicating that among other things the food supply may not have been very safe.

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Re:Study finds organic food no more nutritive than non-organic by Turing_Machine on Monday September 03, 2012 @09:02PM (#4472552)
Right. Not to mention the ever-present fear of famine.

Going back to low-tech, low-energy, localized production is a recipe for the return of large-scale famine.

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