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  1. Rob
    actually farms are kinda fun and I dont mean buying your corn from some hipster up in the bronx silly.

    Look before like 1958, the entire country was made up of SMALL farms growing whatever they can. It wasn’t until the dawn of the “supermarket” in combination with long-haul refridgerated trucking did we see the creation of these big farms servicing large supermarkets. Now take that and add the development of suburban sprawl along with decades of “super-farms” lobbying govt for incentives and subsidies and you get what we have today… – not a pretty picture

  2. Carroll Gardended – the point of the Ark taking two of each species is to perpetuate the species after the floods have subsided. You might call it homophobic to insist on one male and one female human but…..

  3. FWIW, the organic study ignored pesticides and antibiotics effect on food for human consumption and it ignored the impact of the differing farming techniques on the environment.

    I’m not completely sold on organics, but I think the pesticide issue and environmental issues are important to consider. I’m not sure about the antibiotics, but this is due to ignorance on my part.

    I don’t eat entirely organic, but my son does…

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