Originally Posted by
gosmsgo
Listen, I am getting tired of arguing this. Organic food is great. We are however just a good locust swarm or fungus outbreak away from massive starvation. We need these chemicals if nothing else as a last resort. No one is advocating using them just for the hell of it.
When do humans get the most diseases? When you crowd a bunch of them, of about the same age, together in the same place and give them lousy food. (Think about college kids getting meningitis and nursing home residents getting pneumonia and MRSA.)
A similar thing happens with plants and livestock. Crowd a lot of the same species together, and give them lousy food, and watch what happens. You have to give them pesticides, fertilizers, fungicides, antibiotics, etc. just to keep them alive. But grow them in ecological communities of different species, based on soil with good organic content, and these plants and animals will be much better able to resist disease and pests. And it seems logical that healthier food will make healthier humans also.