
Growing Organic to Feed the World: Environmental Justice is Social Justice
There are significant benefits to the environment and economic profitability when considering more organic farming practices. Organic farming will decrease threats to biodiversity and decrease greenhouse emissions. At the same time, organic farming preserves soil conditions with less use, exploitation, and degradagtion. Moreover, there is a wider market for buying organic. People are simply willing to pay a little more if they know they are getting quality produce. Nutritious quality also increases, which translates to preventable or reduction of negative social outcomes. For example, less pesticide use means less unnatural compounds that affect quality of health. Although organic farming...
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