[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Supply, availability etc. It all comes down to cost. Organic farming produces less than conventional. That is why it costs more.
It is probably better to eat 2 conventional vegetables than one organic vegetable.
It may be better to eat 2 organic vegetables than 2 conventional vegetables.
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Highly unlikely that 2 conventional vegetables out-weigh 1 organic. If you are just talking nutrition, its been found that some types of lettuces have TWENTY times less nutrition than they did 50 years ago! Even if we reduce this figure by tend-fold to be conservative, that means its still 4 times LESS nutrition!! So, you are only 50% correct in this isolated example.
But, if you then throw in the mix all the convential chemicals (which, BTW, 90% end up in our ground water…!) and you correct for the health affects, negating the conventional vegetables nutrition, then it may take 10-20 times the amount of conventional produce to equal one organic piece of produce.
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