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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (105481)5/31/2005 11:25:09 AM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Organic farmers do not keep slaves

Gosh. What a statement.

1. Your source for this is?

2. Your source for chocolate producers keeping slaves is? Not merely low paid, overworked employees, but slaves, who can be bought and sold and who if they escape from their jobs can be hunted down and punished?

3. Your source for the apparent proposition you hold that if all food were produced organically, so that every lettuce field in the Salinas Valley and every vinyard in northern California and every orchard in Washington were to convert to organic production, suddenly they would start paying their workers high wages and give them good working conditions?

4. And if all these things happened, what do you suppose would happen to the price of food? In notice that the paper you cite admits that organic foods cost more. What isn't mentioned is, what I observe but can't prove with studies, that it is primarily the wealthy (measured by world standards) who have excess disposable incomes who buy organic foods.
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