Re: [asa] Organic farming article

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Christine Smith wrote:

> I found this article very interesting :)
> http://www.enn.com/lifestyle/article/23143
> "But because we're organic we can't poison bugs and
> we're dependent on the Lord," he said, as chickens
> clucked nearby and a rooster crowed. "There's an
> aspect that we trust the Lord to take care of
> things.""
>
> ...
>
> The second point of interest--their justification of
> organic farming practices as an expression of their
> trust in God, and their characterization of
> non-organic practices as humanistic because it's about
> control. I've never heard this argument in the context
> of organic farming practices before....

  I haven't heard that argument before in the context of organic farming,
either. I have heard it before in the context of not buying health
insurance, not taking vaccines, not taking medicine when sick. (Many
decades ago, it was used by some people to argue that we shouldn't worry
about farming practices with accelerate soil erosion, since taking care of
the soil which the Lord put in place was Lord's work.)
  So organic pest control might or might not be good practice, but this
particular type of argument has a long, bad history.

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Received on Tue Sep 18 09:13:48 2007