Anna Lappe–Study Shows Organic Can Feed The Population
Written by Vegetarian Star on May 4th, 2010 in Authors, Food & Drink.
You’ve heard the arguments from the naysayers.
Organic food is an unrealistic utopia for the elite for live at Whole Foods and is unsustainable and impossible to feed a nation.
Anna Lappe, author and public speaker on sustainability and food politics, discusses this question, using a multi-year study by professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan, Dr. Catherine Badgley, that showed organic crops can feed a substantial portion of the population while maintaining healthy soil.
It was the perfect counteraction to Robert Paarlberg’s defense of industrial agriculture in the Attention Whole Foods Shoppers article in a recent issue of Foreign Policy.
“Unfortunately, you don’t hear about this study, or others with similar findings, in “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers,” Robert Paarlberg’s defense of industrial agriculture in the new issue of Foreign Policy,” writes Lappe. “Instead, organic agriculture, according to Paarlberg, is an “elite preoccupation,” a “trendy cause” for “purist circles.”
Read about Anna’s discussion of organic food being sustainable at Foreign Policy.
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