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Here's one example:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003ESome people believe that by not using manufactured chemicals or  genetically modified organisms, organic farming produces more nutritious  food. However, science simply cannot find any evidence that organic  foods are in any way healthier than non-organic ones – and scientists  have been comparing the two for over 50 years.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBetter for the environment does not necessarily mean better for you (or \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/simondonner.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/climate-impact-of-different-foods.html\"\u003Efor the climate\u003C\/a\u003E). Not that the environmental benefits are clear either:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EYes, organic farming practices use less synthetic pesticides which have  been found to be ecologically damaging. But factory organic farms use  their own barrage of chemicals that are still ecologically damaging, and  refuse to endorse technologies that might reduce or eliminate the use  of these all together.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt's worth a read.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/simondonner.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3793446295596759024\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=25163458\u0026postID=3793446295596759024\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/25163458\/posts\/default\/3793446295596759024"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/25163458\/posts\/default\/3793446295596759024"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/simondonner.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/organic-vs-conventional-agriculture.html","title":"Organic vs. conventional agriculture"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25163458.post-8322348203181288333"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-21T01:51:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-21T01:51:39.714-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"agriculture"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"emissions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"food and the environment"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"land use cascade"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"land use change"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Climate impact of different foods"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Earlier this week, the Environmental Working Group, a research and lobby group in DC, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/07\/18\/environment-eat-less-meat-cheese-dairy-health_n_901464.html\"\u003Ereleased a report\u003C\/a\u003E on the “environment” and \"health\" impact of different foods. It found that lamb is the worst offender, followed by grain-fed beef, pork, cheese and farmed salmon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe report was brought to my attention by a writer at the Huffington Post, who subsequently published \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/07\/18\/environment-eat-less-meat-cheese-dairy-health_n_901464.html\"\u003Ethis story\u003C\/a\u003E which includes thoughts on the report a number of outside experts on the issue. I commented on the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.celsias.com\/article\/is-eating-a-steak-bad-for-the-climate\/\"\u003Eclimate impacts of feed production\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/simondonner.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/farming-sea.html\"\u003Elogic of farming top-of-the-food chain fish like salmon\u003C\/a\u003E, both issues that have been discussed frequently here at Maribo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHere's a more complete list of my thoughts upon examining the short report:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n1. “Environmental” impact or “health” impact can be very different than “climate” impact. For example, I’d expect lamb to be much lower on a list based purely on greenhouse gas emissions (i.e. per gram of food produced). I can't comment on \"health\" impacts as it is not my area of expertise. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n2. What I call the “\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/simondonner.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/biofuel-production-cause-land-use.html\"\u003Eland use cascade\u003C\/a\u003E” is potentially the largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions from food production, but also the hardest to calculate. That’s why GHG emissions from dairy relative to beef cattle tend to be overestimated (more methane from dairy cattle, more land required to grow feed for beef than dairy products). It’s also why any study like this should have large positively skewed error bars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n3. All meat is not created equal in terms of greenhouse gases. Grain-fed beef is far less efficient than pork, which is again far less efficient than poultry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n4. If your food choices are motivated purely by concern about greenhouse gas emissions, eating less grain-fed beef is more important than eating locally. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n5. Historically-speaking, we are just starting to develop industrial-scale farming of fish, as discussed in the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/health\/article\/0,8599,2081796-1,00.html\"\u003Erecent Time cover story\u003C\/a\u003E. Farming the ocean is, in a sense, thousands of years behind farming on land. Right now, many of the choices we are making are, as I put bluntly in the Huffington Post story, “stupid”.  Cattle are logical choice for farm animals. They eat grass, so they are only one step away from the sun. Salmon are much higher up the food chain. That’s why many of us say farming salmon is like farming wolves or tigers – you need the whole ecosystem to support the one salmon."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/simondonner.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8322348203181288333\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=25163458\u0026postID=8322348203181288333\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/25163458\/posts\/default\/8322348203181288333"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/25163458\/posts\/default\/8322348203181288333"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/simondonner.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/climate-impact-of-different-foods.html","title":"Climate impact of different foods"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25163458.post-1610568301682854941"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-17T22:02:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-17T22:02:15.771-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"agriculture"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"biofuels"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mississippi River"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Eliminating the US corn ethanol subsidy is no panacea"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-HhGjQDUdXoU\/TiOSNw4xiuI\/AAAAAAAACxA\/vq_nNokTm-Q\/s1600\/corn.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"301\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-HhGjQDUdXoU\/TiOSNw4xiuI\/AAAAAAAACxA\/vq_nNokTm-Q\/s320\/corn.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EOne possible casualty of the endless U.S. budget fight may be the federal subsidy for corn ethanol production. There's been a lot of quiet, and some not-so-quiet, cheering from the environmental community, based on the premise that eliminating the subsidy will lessen \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/simondonner.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/corn-ethanol-production-will-worsen.html\"\u003Enutrient pollution from growing so much corn\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn reality, cutting or repealing the 45-cents-per-gallon ethanol tax credit is unlikely to have much of an effect on planting decisions. As a recent article in the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/08\/business\/energy-environment\/corn-ethanol-subsidies-may-be-in-jeopardy.html\"\u003ENY Times\u003C\/a\u003E nicely explained last week, the subsidy is, at this point, unnecessary. Between laws requiring blending of ethanol into gasoline, the federal ethanol mandate, the tariff on imports, the size of the ethanol production industry, and the high price of corn, there's already enough incentive to maintain the status quo in corn production and corn ethanol production. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere are certainly good reasons to eliminate the subsidy. No one should pretend that doing so will solve of the problem of nutrient levels in the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. That is a far greater challenge."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/simondonner.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1610568301682854941\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=25163458\u0026postID=1610568301682854941\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/25163458\/posts\/default\/1610568301682854941"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/25163458\/posts\/default\/1610568301682854941"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/simondonner.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/eliminating-us-corn-ethanol-subsidy-is.html","title":"Eliminating the US corn ethanol subsidy is no panacea"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-HhGjQDUdXoU\/TiOSNw4xiuI\/AAAAAAAACxA\/vq_nNokTm-Q\/s72-c\/corn.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});