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Originally Posted by AbsentWizard
I support this, but only because I believe in the power of SCIENCE! to replace inefficient meaty growing with soy products or other processed foods indistinguishable!
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I'm not touching soy products: they contain something that looks like female hormones (see
this. I didn't check the sources, but as long as there is doubt, I'll stay with taste beef).
In general, I'll stay away from "bio" products (that's what they're called here), except when they're cheaper. Growing hormones in meat is prohibited here anyway, so I don't need to consider that.
And the lower biological footprint is just silly. This year I saw bio-asparagus brought in by plane from
Peru
I recently read an article from a professor in bio-engineering (regretfully in Dutch and not available online). He claimed that "industrial" farming has much better control over what happens with the soil and water than "organic" farming. Natural manure isn't very good for the environment, and no manure leads to dead soil.
Another point he made is that "organic" farming, due to a lower efficiency needs much more space, so maybe it's better to just farm as efficient as possible, taking control over which minerals enter and leave the soil and leave the space you win for some nature reserve (a big issue here, as Belgium is very densely populated and there aren't a lot of forests left)