What people call organic farming is ideologically descended from Theosophy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner), and more generally German nature mysticism c. 1900. And it is a deeply conservative ideology--arising from intuitions about purity and resistant to evidence and innovation.
There's a lot of room for public critiques of modern farming technology. Unfortunately, "organic" has occupied most of that space, and that hurts everyone.
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Date: 2012-06-15 07:07 pm (UTC)There's a lot of room for public critiques of modern farming technology. Unfortunately, "organic" has occupied most of that space, and that hurts everyone.