The snobbery of organic foods

[kahljorn]

Yea, i know it's pretty crazy. There's alot of tricks in gardening though. For example alot of insects are eatten by other insects, usually the preditor insect doesn't eat plants, either. There's even bacterias that are very beneficial to plants and soil because they eat the eggs and larvae of most insects, along with killing diseases and harmful bacterias(they also help in composting by breaking down things in the soil/compost so the nutrients are in a more beneficial form). Also, alot of plants naturally repel bugs, like chrysanthemums, cinnamon and neem.
There's also other tricks like crop rotation and such. Certain plants help replenish certain nutrients in the soil. the reason I mention nutrients is because most of the foods are fed by chemical fertilizers as well.
But for the mass production thing i agree, might as well go chemical. You have to figure though, with so many people going "Organic" and what-not being a local farmer selling organic foods for cheap would be a profitable business, especially in mind with how much you could do with small branching farms.