Sentences with phrase «conventional agriculture does»
Along with «exponentially higher» yields, the CropBox promises that their complete growing system also uses 90 % less water and 80 % less fertilizer than conventional agriculture does.
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Organic marketers and anti-GMO activists exaggerate these efforts, making claims that organics are «pesticide - free» and don't use «harmful» chemicals that they claim are the mainstay of conventional agriculture, and often linked in their campaigns to genetically modified crops.
For example, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) doesn't allow producers to feed stock conventional feed, whereas the Australian Certified Organic Standard makes exceptions for producers in drought declared areas who can't source certified organic feed.
«We identify the situations where organic does well and we also identify the situations where it does not do so well, for example under irrigated conditions where the conventional yields can be just so high that organic agriculture can't match these yields.»
Why do we need to choose between taking the organic high road to healthy vitality versus the slippery slide down, poisoning our foods and fibers through conventional agriculture?
Current prices for conventionally grown foods do not reflect the costs of federal subsidies to conventional agriculture, the cost of contaminated drinking water, loss of wildlife habitat and soil erosion, or the cost of the disposal and clean up of hazardous wastes generated by the manufacturing of pesticides.
If the human safety of farming with bugs and flowers versus deadly chemicals seems clear, why do you think growers maintain conventional agriculture?
The banning of GMOs hasn't led to a transformation of agriculture because GM seed was never a linchpin supporting the conventional food system: Farmers could always do fine without it.