Respnse to Athavi's blog post

I read Athavi’s blog post about organic food and decided to write a response to it. I really like the topic she picked since this year I have been reading an enormously large amount of material relating to the organic food industry and local farming. Essentially the arguments made against organic farming in my opinion are shortsighted and biased by greed. While organic farming takes more time, effort and money to grow food without the typical industrial food pesticides used today, the real cost of non-organic methods must be assessed from a health and sustainability standpoint. The second article states that there is no link between diseases and non-organic food. This year in my environmental studies class I listened to a presentation about a study conducted on campus dealing with the study of pesticides. The study found that even amounts of less than .05 ppm could cause diseases such as cancer and gene deterioration. These are the same pesticides that are used on non-organic food today. While organic farm practices are much better than the non-organic farms’, organic farms can still become industrial and relatively bad. I believe that the real piece of mind comes from locally supplied produce in which the buyer holds a relationship with the farmer. This scenario can be best exemplified by the farmer’s market on the square. Overall I don’t disagree that organic farming regulations are beneficial to our health, but I think that just because it is organic, doesn’t mean it is sustainable. And that is what I see as the most important question; is the practice sustainable?