EcoWatch: Forty five years have passed since Earl Butz, then U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, asserted, Before we go back to organic agriculture in this country, somebody must decide which 50 million Americans we are going to let starve or go hungry. Time has proven Butz very wrong.
The weight of four decades worth of scientific evidence tells us that organic farming is critical to feeding ourselves, now and into the future, as a new report by Friends of the Earth explains. Not only can organic farming...