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The Seven Most Dangerous Myths About Organic
The Seven Most Dangerous Myths About Organic
The Seven Most Dangerous Myths About Organic
Farming
For people who are familiar with the actual practices of organic and
non-organic farmers, it is alarming to watch how both systems are
misrepresented in marketing messages for Organic products, by some
environmental advocacy groups and by some governmental and
academic spokespeople. Rather than presenting an accurate picture,
these voices present a mythic version of farming in which Organic is
presented as the ideal solution, distracting society from attention to
real and critically needed solutions for feeding the world in an age of
climate change. The elements of the “Myth” are as follows: