August 28, 2024

Greenwashing of the Organic Food Movement

100 hundred years ago, there was no such thing as organic because most all farms and food were organic. It wasn’t until World War II when experiments with industrial fertilizers and GMO-foods hit the scene to “feed our troops”.

It was unpatriotic to NOT use chemical fertilizers as the pharmaceutical companies argued that we should do everything in our power to support the Allies in winning the war against Nazi Germany (who ironically was using the same industrial nitrogen to build bombs and kill prisoners and the same technology Firestone used later to deforest Vietnam for rubber harvesting). As a matter of fact, in the UK, a farmer could have his farm taken away by the government if he refused to used chemical fertilizers.

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