Comments on: Turns out ‘Organic’ fertilizer wasn’t or was it?

By: Mercy Rieu

Mercy Rieu — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:27:49 +0000

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By: peio revuelta

peio revuelta — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:16:12 +0000

I am a farmer and growing vegetables to sell. For more efficency i use fertilizers but while using them it is important to
keep it healthy because some fertilizers contain corruptive elements so i try to read everything about fertilizers and try
to keep my product healthy. I am grateful for those who gives information about fertilizers and anyone who
uses fertliziers should read about it, i also found another good guide which should be read too i think;

http://agricultureguide.org/

By: T M Colon

T M Colon — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:29:21 +0000

The dirty little secret of the organics business: it’s the farming method that’s “organic”, not the produce. All fruits and vegetables grow from the same seeds with the same genetics which metabolize sunlight, water and nutrients in the same way. Nutritionally they are the indistinguishable. While you say “to-may-to” and I say “to-mah-to”, they’re the same thing. Plants can’t discriminate between identical things in the soil because of how they got there. The only significant difference is the price which effects you fiscally rather than physically.

By: Jim Baerg

Jim Baerg — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:43:53 +0000

“I only eat organic food. That silicon-based stuff tears up my innards”

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By: just_some_guy

just_some_guy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:01:51 +0000

Well, you see, someone spent a great deal of time and expense to find a natural source that they could mine. It just wouldn’t do to have people whip the stuff up in their bathtubs. A quick call and maybe a contribution to their local representative and voila – no more synthetic fertilizer.

By: soylent

soylent — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:25:10 +0000

Dave G said:

This whole thing is starting to sound ridiculous.

I guess it was from the start, but that people take this stuff seriously is just idiotic.

Starting to?

Look into Rudolf Steiner and biodynamic farming; it was one of the major influences that created modern organic farming.

(you may also want to look into waldorf pedagogy, invented by the very same bastard)

By: Dave G

Dave G — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:35:19 +0000

This whole thing is starting to sound ridiculous. I guess it was from the start, but that people take this stuff seriously is just idiotic. The scam that this is is becoming more and more obvious. I wonder how soon the public at large will start to catch on.

By: DV82XL

DV82XL — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:15:56 +0000

Q said:

I doubt you could make it indistinguishable anyway.

I didn’t get that example from my imagination. Next time you are in a food mart, look at the label of one of the cheaper ‘cheeze’ spreads. Unless things have changed, (I don’t eat the stuff myself anymore) you might be surprised.

By: TxStu

TxStu — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:10:55 +0000

anon said:

I think they got this backwards. Geologic mineral formations can I guess be depleted faster than they are reformed (over geological timescales…), whereas atmospheric nitrogen is part of a closed cycle.

I think he was being sarcastic. If this material can be found in geological formations at yellostone that would be the WORST place to take it. It’d be illegal anway because it’s protected but there are geysers there that have built up huge mineral deposits and pillars that took centuries to form. So that might be the point.

I don’t think it applies so much there tho because this is just one example of a compound that can be natural or synthetic. Urea is there too in the side caption. It’s just showing how stupid the whole concept is.

By: Magic Donuts

Magic Donuts — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:50:15 +0000

It’s amazing they call the fertilizer ‘tainted’ as if it were somehow going to change the product or contaminate it or make it dangerous. When I think ‘tainted’ I think of something being poison or contaminated with a dangerous bacteria or something.

This reaks of empty religious-like dogma that something that comes from the ground is GOOD and something that comes from the ground and then is somehow chemically reacted by humans is BAD.

I’d laugh at this if it weren’t such a tragic example of our society going to hell in education and understanding.