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PowerOfTheirSource970 karma

Instead, let's subsidize small family owned farms that are organic.

Woooooah there buddy. Organic can pollute as much or MORE than modern farming, including chemicals (in the science sense, not the "OGM chemicals!" sense) that are MORE toxic, take LONGER to break down, require MORE of them to be used and have WORSE secondary impacts. Further "organic" farming in the US requires MORE water, and MORE land and has NO science proven impact on the nutrition or health impact of the resulting crop.

I strongly urge you to focus on science based farming methods, especially ways to use less water and land. Things like hydroponics, vertical farms and evidenced based regulation of all farming practices.

Edit: I'm no longer replying to anything in this thread, I hope everyone has a wonderful day, no one has to take my word for anything and I encourage everyone do to their own research and reach their own conclusions.

PowerOfTheirSource184 karma

"Pandering to idiots" is sort of screams "I'm part of the problem too" :(

PowerOfTheirSource52 karma

Perfection.

PowerOfTheirSource29 karma

Except that neither of those are part of organic farming by anything other that what we wish to be true. Plenty of "organic" pesticides are absolutely terrible for you or the environment, several in fact are banned for use on non organic farms. If it turns out a created pesticide/herbicide is bad for us, then we go make a better one. Organic farming is inherently anti-science and subject to the naturalistic fallacy.

PowerOfTheirSource14 karma

Rather than blocking you, I feel the tactic would more likely be "embrace, extend (and hopefully not extinguish)". So on that note, how large of a private island are you holding out for? On a more serious note, do you think Amazon would ever be likely to make your service more "official" and what do you think that would look like?