The USDA National Organic Program has the acronym NOP, which also describes its usefulness: http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2015/07/29/why-organic-agriculture-is-a-colossal-hoax/ …
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Replying to @landley
A common claim but it's wrong. The purpose of organic agriculture is environmental, not health or other snakeoil nonsense.
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Replying to @RichFelker @landley
Snakeoil salesmen have appropriated it for the latter, which is a big problem but hard to avoid.
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Essentially organic vs "conventional" ag is optimal-control vs huge-cost-forcing-function, where latter is artificially cheap...
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Throwing huge fossil-fuel-based inputs at agriculture is a backwards, painfully-20th-century idea.
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Replying to @RichFelker @landley
Unfortunately the snake oil salesmen are actively preventing universal adoption of better methods by making organic a "luxury" item
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