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Default The myth of food production "efficiency" in the "ar" debate

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:43:50 -0700, Rudy Canoza
> wrote:

>Torsten Brinch wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:13:00 +0000, Oz >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Buxqi > writes
>>>> "On page 1694, agronomists report the results of the longest and most
>>>> comprehensive study to date comparing organic and conventional farming,
>>>> measuring many aspects of crops and soil over 21 years.
>>> Unfortunately the details do not seem to be online.

>>
>> http://orgprints.org/5514/

>
>Important finding stated at that site: "We found crop
>yields to be 20% lower in the organic systems".
>
>So...who gets the privilege of starving due to 20%
>lower yields?


Jonny it's out of your league don't even pretend to comprehend.