Is Organic Better For The Environment???
9 09 2008If you believe in the environment then don’t eat Organic.
If we truly want to fight the greenhouse effect and carbon dioxide emissions then we shouldn’t be eating organic.
What? Organics are not friendly to our skies? Yes, Organic is supposedly good for our health, less pesticides, but is it good for the environment? In a recent article I read in Wired magazine (Joanna Pearlstein), June 2008 they presented a good case for not eating organic.
Consider the following for Dairy cows:
- Dairy cows are not feed hormones thus about 8% less milk is produced per conventional.
- It takes 25 Organic cows to produce what 23 conventional cows produce.
- More cows means more greenhouse gas emissions
- A single Organic cow puts out 16% more greenhouse gases than conventional.
- A double whammy - more cows more greenhouse emissions.
The article goes on to talk of Organic steers (and/or grass fed cattle) versus conventional and the story is the same. More methane gas emissions.
What are we to do?
Become a vegetarian. According to a research project by the University of Chicago, meat diets emit 1.5 more tons of greenhouse gases per year then the vegetarian diet.
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