VVH-TV News Special Organic Farming: Can It Feed Us? Part 1 Karl Grossman Chief Investigative Reporter examines Organic Farming on Eastern Long Island. What is organic farming? Organic farming can be defined as an approach to agriculture where the aim is to create integrated, humane, environmentally and economically sustainable agricultural production systems. Maximum reliance is placed on locally or farm-derived renewable resources and the management of self-regulating ecological and biological processes and interactions in order to provide acceptable levels of crop, livestock and human nutrition, protection from pests and diseases, and an appropriate return to the human and other resources employed. Reliance on external inputs, whether chemical or organic, is reduced as far as possible. In many European countries, organic agriculture is known as ecological agriculture, reflecting this reliance on ecosystem management rather than external inputs. The objective of sustainability lies at the heart of organic farming and is one of the major factors determining the acceptability or otherwise of specific production practices. The term ’sustainable’ is used in its widest sense, to encompass not just conservation of non-renewable resources (soil, energy, minerals) but also issues of environmental, economic and social sustainability. The term ‘organic’ is best thought of as referring to the concept of the farm as an organism, in which all the component parts – the soil minerals …
Organic Farming: Can It Feed Us (Part 1)
March 25th, 2010 
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Farming without corporate chemicals has always fed the world…and it still feeds the majority of the world presently.
Organic is just a government licensing scheme to traditional farming practices
Poverty/starvation is not because of traditional farming it is a function of the ‘Trinity of Corruption’…that is central banks (interest), corporations (restricted control to resources and controlling labor), and governmental taxation (property, income tax, sales, insurance, heath, etc…)
Because they could’nt transport food from other places?
Because they didn’t have fridges to store their yummy organics. Nor could they import food quickly and at high volume from other places that had a good season.
good one man!
people are not starving from lack of food it is lack of access to land. If they had land anyone can grow food to feed the local people.
hi Ruben u have hotmail massener or facebook account i like to interact with Agrobidiversity believers great explanation.
why wouldn’t organic farming be good. in jesus time were there chemicals for farming, no. nothing but man and nature. take care of the earth and it will take care of you
may be it was limited info on farming. native americans never went through a famin. who knows
Lawns are RETARDED. People should have organic veggie gardens.
I love that her name is Eve.
if organic farming is so great than why did people starve in common famines back in the olden days of farming when everything was organic
Wow!
there is a naturally occuring fungus that gets in the soil. it forms a symbiotic life form with the plant and others of its species and other plant species and then the plants can trade with eachother for the nutrients they need. this cannot happen with petroleum fertilizers.
worms change the soil eventually you dont need to plow, use less water and they prevent certain disease and nemotoads in their gut turn rock into organic soil.
on so patroleum fertilizers kill microbes in the soil. the organic way lets the microbes live. now plants sweat chemicals in the soil to attract micobes then micro preditors come in and eat the micrograzers then the waste the micro preditors produce are exactly what the plant wants. the plant will change its output to control this micro ecosystem depending on its needs by it growth stage and the weather.
if you wanna sacrafice people for your god of death then say so dont blame the planet.
colonize planet kansas theres noone out there i know ive been there
colonize the big bend area of texas, alaska, america’s north west, there are places in america where no human has ever set foot.
there are places in the amazon where no human has ever returned from. the river is 3,903 miles long and in places 7 miles wide. during the dry season. 24 in rainy
everybody whos lazy should be taken out
i love these people, eco-revolution is almost in full swing now peoples ^_^ vote with your dollars is the most profound message. please question your motives when you purchase anything
Theres no need for culling humans, although i do think we need to ask the families with excess of 6 children to stop unless they are living self sustainabily.
Over-population puts pressure on us to act fast and change the way we exist on earth but, it also has the benefit of providing us with many hands to make light work.
if humanity is such a virus….so freaking horrible, then start a trend and kill your self.
I am being very fucking serious.
So which 80% of the population should die? The Old? The mentally ill? People in Poor Nations? Or maybe the people in the nations who take up the most resources…Which would be in the U.S. Where you live. So who are willing to sacrifice in the name of the environment? Which of your family/friends should be included in this 80%!
Love it!! Working on doing the same on my property, and I am encouraging all to take this route, even local farmers.
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organic food is the best i buy my food in flabush coop or wholefood i whish they will have more stores through out the city to all the farmers keep up the good work i know many people they prefer organic today.. we need you good farmers!
WHERES THE HEMP AT?!!!!!!!!!!!!
The rats are jumping ship.
CHEMRISK – a research company hired by the Corn Refiners Association has recently taken down it’s YouTube channel.
The removal was in response to negative public perception resulting from the discovery of dangerous levels of MERCURY in HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. Apparently it has become a liability to defend the sweetener.
See one of the last remaining ChemRisk videos at CornRefinersAssoc on YouTube.
Thanks for making this video.
Very informative!
YEah right, you think theres no more options but Pesticides for BiGfarmers around the globe? heres a video so you can learn someting.
EliminatingAgricultural Chemicals watch?v=RUOOzdYaARg