Organic Farming: What do you think?

Introduction: Organic Farming is not a new trend, but it is receiving a lot of positive press, and more people are choosing to consume organically grown food, purchased in our regular grocery stores. This current demand is being met by a small but growing number of organic farming operations including organic dairy and meats, not just vegetables and fruits as it the past. Some points to know about organic farming: no pesticides are used in production, no commercial fertilizers are used, organic milk is produced only when the cow is fed grain that is produced organically, and genetically altered seeds cannot be used. There are many more requirements, and visit the Organic Farming Research Foundation at http://www.ofrf.org/general/about_organic/ for more information. In this activity you will be comparing two points of view about organic farming and developing your own opinions about organic farming.

Information – You will be using two information sources posted one pro and one con about organic farming.

Why Organic Food is Bad http://www.postpolitics.com/blogs/archives/000264.html

Top 10 environment Reason to Buy Organic Food http://www.organic.org/new/topten.html

Question- After reading the two opposing views develop your own opinion about organic farming.

Activity – You will write an opinion statement on organic farming, and then support the statement with information from one or both websites.

Opinion statement example

“I believe that organic farming will become the only way we produce food in the future.”