what is non-organic farming?

Question

im doing an debate and i need to know what non-organic farming is, IMMEDIATELY!!

Answer 1

Farming that uses pesticides and non-organic plant/animal feeds.

Technically farming right next to non-organic farms, as the pesticides/plant feeds might blow in on the wind, can't be called organic either

Answer 2

Non Organic Farming

Answer 3

Vegetables: traditional methods include chemical fertilizers as well as herbicides and pesticides. These create toxic runoff into nearby waterways. The soil becomes depleted because trace minerals are not replaced. Foods grown on these soils are nutritionally deficient.

Other agriculture (beef, hog, dairy, poultry, egg production etc.): animals are kept in crowded quarters (called "factory farms") for economic reasons. They get no exercise, never see the outdoors, live in filth, are fed on an unnatural diet which includes growth hormones and heavy doses of antibiotics. The hay and grain they are fed was not grown organically either.

Answer 4

organic food is NOT healthier than conventional food. That's an advertising ploy used to convince you to part with more of your hard-earned money for less food and less healthy food. It is true that organic foods are not contaminated by pesticides. But for the most part, neither is conventional food. It's not like the farmers are spraying a gallon of methyl parathion on every head of lettuce before they ship it to the grocery store. Conventional farmers do not spray anything directly on produce. On the non-edible parts of the plant, sure; on the soil, definitely; but not on the edible parts of the plant. Also, most of these pesticides break down rapidly in the environment, leaving little if any residue on plants or their edible parts. For grains and other row crops, we don't consume those directly - they go through several stages of processing (for example, wheat is threshed, then milled into flour, then baked into bread), and by the time they get to our table, the product is fundamentally changed, and herbicides just don't survive all those processes. So much of this "concern" about herbicides in food is just undue alarmism. The fact is, there has never been a reported case of human death due to pesticide contamination of food. On the other hand, ORGANIC food DOES constitute a very REAL risk of death. Organic growers are not allowed to use man-made fertilizers. So they use manure (usually from cattle) instead. But cattle manure contains E coli bacteria. If you're wondering where you've heard that term, E coli, before, that's the bacteria that has caused several outbreaks of food poisoning in the US and around the world in recent years. If this stuff gets on produce, it makes people very sick, and some of them die. The last outbreak of E coli in the US (I think it was in 2006 or 2007) was traced to spinach from an ORGANIC grower, which was contaminated by cattle manure. That outbreak killed 6 people and made hundreds more sick....!!

Answer 5

When chemicals are used as part of the farming process. Like pesticide to kill bugs.

Answer 6

Hydrophonic processes............growing things in sand or gravel and feeding through a liquid process

Answer 7

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