They are still at it.  What's amazing to me is many people are sucked into their premise without any consideration for their purpose.  This group is Anti-American and Communistic in its philosophy and we should call them what they are, a danger to the American way of life. 

Organic Farming...sounds so nice, so wonderful, so idealistic, so great...but for whom?  What would be the impact if the United States went to all organic farming as EWG wants?  Let's take a look by asking the right questions and then looking at the real goals of the EWG taken directly from them.

Do you think prices will stay where they are in the food chain of this country if American agriculture goes to organic production?  Have you considered the impact on the prices of your food?  Do you think the supply will be there if we take away years of technical advances in agricultural production?  Think of the last time you walked down the isle of the grocery store and then ask your self, could we have all of this if farmed organically in this country?  That is what the Environmental Working Group wants.  America to switch to nothing but organic farming.  If you are a consumer of the rich bounty of this country, beware.  Your food source is being attacked by this un-American group. 

Let me start by saying without reservations, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) is as un-American as they come.  If you believe in social government, you will like this organization.  In other words, EWG has goals that will take the US towards a socialist type of Agriculture.  It's all over their website if one will just take the time to read it.

I love the phrase "what's down in the well comes up in the bucket".  Let me start by taking just a few quotes from their website so you can see what's in their well.  Again just a few, I could use 100 pages if you had the time to read it.

Since they put out their garbage by state, I used Texas for this presentation.  What is underlined below is cut and pasted directly from their website.

"Since organic food is one of the fastest growing segments in the U.S. food industry, Texas could create a healthier food supply and farm economy by increasing organic production."  (By the way, they said that about every state in the union.)

That doesn't sound socialistic does it?  Of coarse not, what is socialistic is the practical result of such a naive goal. 

In short, more farmers in Texas would receive more federal assistance if farm policy were reformed to distribute funding through conservation and economic development programs.

OK...Did I miss something here...Let's see, they want us to get more payments now?   What the heck is this!  I thought they were against government payments!!  Oh they are unless .... let's see....Oh I get it, "conservation and economic development programs."  Like what?  Its here just look a little further!!

Pesticide use in Texas is 39 million pounds per year and nitrate use is 959,000 tons per year.

Ooooh...Sounds Scary doesn't it.  Let's see now, Texas is HOW BIG??  We are going to spread that out over, HOW MANY ACRES??  Give me a break!!!  Oh, here is one for my friends in Iowa.

In Iowa, 88.5 percent of surveyed rivers and streams and 77.2 percent of surveyed lakes have been classified as impaired due to siltation and excessive ammonia and nutrients (I corrected their spelling here...geezzz). Of this, agricultural pollution causes 8.3 percent of impaired river miles and 33.7 percent of impaired lake acres. In short, agriculture is one of the leading causes of nonpoint source pollution in Iowa.

Boy, it's great to visit but don't drink the water...I'd rather go to Mexico and drink their water then Iowa!!  By the way, what does "impaired" mean anyway, and since when is silt pollution?  I thought that was natural!!

Yep...sounds really good doesn't it.  Here is the problem.  ORGANIC FARMING DOESN'T WORK COMMERCIALLY!!  PLAIN AND SIMPLE.  IF IT DID WE WOULD BE DOING IT ALREADY!!!   

The average yield per acre for corn in the United States is 133 bushels per acre.  We achieve this yield through the use of fertilizer and pesticides.  There is no way to organically farm 10 billion bushels of corn in the US.  In 1997, 42,000 acres of corn were grown organically out of 77 million acres.  Come on!!  Do you think all corn farmers is the US are so stupid as to not move to the most profitable form of production?   

I was fascinated to spend several hours cruising the Internet on organic farming.  You should do that especially the US government page.  Here is the link for you, but don't forget to come back and finish reading this.

USDA Organic Page

On this page there is a 28 page report on organic farming and how it's growing.  (Realistically it isn't.)  This report never, never, never, talks about yields, only acres.  Why is that?  Because production levels drop drastically.  In fact, I couldn't find a site that boasted about even similar yields compared to traditional farming.  Organic farming exists because there is a small demand for it by people who can't or don't want to eat something that has had a chemical on it.  (They do drink water and other things though...go figure!!).  Now don't get me wrong, organic farming is just another way to farm but it has not been proven safer by the USDA or any farming organization that is science based.

The fact is that the engine of the food cycle in America is meat production.  Corn is eaten by cattle which are then eaten by you and me.  Unless this country wants to all become vegetarians, I suggest we look at the demand for corn and make sure we can produce enough of it to feed this country.   

EWG believes we can do all these wonderful things and the prices will just stay where they are.  They are utopians in a make believe world who have somehow gotten the ears of congress.  Do you think prices will stay where they are in the food chains of this country if American agriculture goes to organic production?  Do you think the supply will be there if we take away years of technical advances in agricultural production?  The ramifications are disastrous.  Remember, cattle manure is used to fertilize organic farms.  Of coarse they will only produce 1/5th of the corn needed so cattle numbers will drop accordingly.  Now there is less fertilizer so now we have even less organic farming and on and on it goes.  Not to mention the  ecoli-bacteria that has been found in organic production.  Oh, I'm not supposed to tell you about that. 

My final point is this, I said at the top that the EWG is a socialistic organization which makes it un-American.  I have already shown that their long term goal is to take US Agriculture into organic farming.  A plan that will not work as the cost to you as a consumer will be incredible.  How are they socialistic?  Consider their desire to limit all farm sizes.  Here is another one of their quotes.

For instance, between 1996 and 2000, the top 10 percent of recipients (17,254 recipients) in Texas received over 70 percent of federal farm subsidies flowing into the state, with an average payment of over $240,000 per recipient. In contrast, the bottom 90 percent of recipients (157,005 recipients) in Texas only received 33 percent of farm subsidies, with an average payment of little over $12,455.

A question please.  Who feeds America...the large farmer or the small one?  Think about this for a second.  These payments are made to the farmers based on production!!    I want to be sure you get this...ON PRODUCTION!!!  If a farmer is getting large payments, then he has a large amount of production.  It is the large farmers who provide 80% of what you eat.  Do not miss this...80% of what you have eaten is from the large farmers in this country.  Why does EWG want to hurt them?  They are the ones, who under a free and democratic society have built their large farming operations.  EWG is on the record that they want to go over to the socialist way of doing things by making large farms small and putting all farms on some organic production schedule.  Have you ever studied the communistic approach to agriculture?  The EWG sounds just like the old USSR to me.  I know you're saying I'm waving the communist card here and you're dang right.  Stop and think about it because the logic is sound. 

I think whoever is working for these guys must have MBA degrees but they are not like mine.  Theirs stands for "Most Brains Absent".

The bottom line is this, it didn't work in the Soviet Union and will not work here either.  The ramifications of the goals of EWG will be disastrous.  It's time we stand against these socialists who use the tactic of whining "they get more than you do" as a way to get unsuspecting people to buy into their garbage. 

You have a choice.  Don't get sucked into their socialism.  These guys are slick...but in the long term, I hope all they have done is awaken a sleeping giant.

Dennis DeLaughter, CEO

Your comments are welcome...especially if your on the other side.  Maybe I can do you a great service by helping you see the real truth!  (I'm starting to sound like Rush Limbaugh.)

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