The organic community remains unswayed by either biology or history, however, and modern genetic engineering remains prohibited from organic agriculture.
The transition zone is mainly used for organic agriculture, and Aya Town is the first community in the country to develop a traditional recycling-oriented agricultural system, put in place in 1988.
Another speaker, Professor Urs Niggli, director of the Swiss Research Institute for Organic Agriculture, said he was disappointed that Ms Spelman did not use her speech to set out the government's goals for organic farming.
Suddenly society was faced with dramatically reduced amounts of hydrocarbon energy, and the result was a fundamental reorganization of food production, leading to a boom in urban organic agriculture, which requires fewer inputs than conventional farming.
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Ronnie Cummins of the OCA apparently considers advocating for such restrictions a capitulation, but considering the ban was declared off the table by the USDA, we considered the move to be the most responsible thing to do on behalf of organic agriculture.
Recent research by Danish and American scientists suggests that if all agriculture was organic, the slight decrease in yields in the northern hemisphere would be more than matched by overall increases elsewhere, leading to a slight increase in total food production.
These allegations all of which are either demonstrably untrue or exaggerations of problems that are present in all of agriculture (including organic farming) are the currency of such groups as the Environmental Working Group and the Union of Concerned Scientists, which make no pretense of their ideological rather than scientific opposition to GMOs.
Like high-end winemakers, these producers obsess about methods, singing the virtues of organic gardening, hydroponics (soilless agriculture), even aeroponics (with nutrient misted on the plants).
They'd prefer to scale back agriculture and grow just enough organic produce to keep Alice Waters clucking happily in her kitchen.
But then Congress stepped in, adding a rider to an agriculture spending bill that allowed organic food makers to resume using a long list of synthetics.
Wednesday, for example, a House Agriculture subcommittee took up the topic of organic farming in the Bush package.
Vibrating screens sift out organic particles which are then sold as manure for land in agriculture.
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Perhaps because of her passion for organic farming, Merrigan, while a staffer for the Senate Agriculture Committee, was completely uneducable about the importance of genetically improved plant varieties to advances in agriculture.
So almost a decade ago, I visited a local organic farm, signed up for its CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program, and started receiving a weekly basket overflowing with tall stalks of rainbow chard, dark green zucchini, deep magenta beets, and massive heads of romaine lettuce.
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The U.S. does not maintain standards for organic cosmetics and soaps, so Dr. Bronner's went to the federal Department of Agriculture, which regulates farm goods, and obtained a seal for its products.
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