The best thing about organic food is that it uses no gas to produce fertilizer like for conventional food [1]. Using gas to produce food is just crazy if you think about it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer#Nitrogen_fertilizer...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer#Nitrogen_fertilizer...
I thought about it. It sounds like using energy to make a system move in a direction away from the point of lowest energy (decayed fields on a rocky, dead planet), which is basically what the Universe and the human race do for a living. So it's not crazy.
Whether or not it's the best use of energy, and whether or not the effects on future generations is good or not, I don't know.
The entire food system is heavily dependent on hydrocarbon energy and long supply lines.
Take oil and natural gas away and billions of people would starve to death.
The world produces enough food to feed everyone. For the world as a whole, per capita food availability has risen from about 2220 kcal/person/day in the early 1960s to 2790 kcal/person/day in 2006-08, while developing countries even recorded a leap from 1850 kcal/person/day to over 2640 kcal/person/day. This growth in food availability in conjunction with improved access to food helped reduce the percentage of chronically undernourished people in developing countries from 34 percent in the mid 1970s to just 15 percent three decades later. (FAO 2012, p. 4) The principal problem is that many people in the world still do not have sufficient income to purchase (or land to grow) enough food."
Taken from http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20f....
I did not want to just say 'there is enough food, but the distribution is not fair'.
For example, pastured livestock on a commercial scale, such as what this article is promoting, is an absolute disaster form a carbon footprint perspective.