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Scientific evidence of the benefits of organic food and farming
News&Comment page read by over 90% of visitors
click here.
Agriculture is one of the most ill-conceived human
endeavors. We plow down stable communities of hundreds of species of
plants to get single-row crops. We replace entire ecosystems with
pesticides, fertilizers, precious fresh water, and tractor emissions.
Then, after every harvest, we start all over again. Organic agriculture
breaks this cycle. But it's just a Band-Aid on the wound. Richard
Manning, in an article, Super Organics in Wired. www.wired.com/wired/archive
/12.05/food.html?tw=wn_tophead_4
Manning is the author of Against the grain: how agriculture has
hijacked civilization.
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Plan
organic - for a sustainable future
planorganic.com
provides:
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organic food and farming news
from Ireland, UK, Europe and beyond, with
robust, independent comment Click
here
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information on where to obtain
and enjoy organic products especially in Ireland and the UK
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references to almost all publications
on organic and sustainable food and farming issues
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articles and papers on sustainable/organic
farming and related subjects
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a guide to
the best associated sites on the web and more....
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October
2008
Famine
Justice? - my (controversial?) thesis on the Irish
Famine of the 1840s. Welcome to those following up the radio
and newspaper interviews I gave in Jan. 2007.
Photo Gallery
- the boats, the Bay (Bantry), Beara (Peninsula)
bogs, Berehaven and beet. Oh, and sunrises and sunsets, and
rain and rainbows and even for crissakes, snow here - albeit
Dec - in the semitropical southwest!
Extra curricular;
Slievenamon (the Mountain of the Women)
and how my article on Tipperary's most famous upland helped solve
an environmental threat at the time
St. Patrick - First Christian in Ireland?
Not even close!
Poetry and
short stories and....
Sheela na gig - Witch
or goddess? Which or whether, what's she doing up our walls?
See www.pilgrimhorse.info
- my brother's site about his travels in Europe and in Ireland with
his Spanish horse, Murphy. Sadly, Jan 2006, the horse died. See
the website for details.
Property - a
service to friends and neighbours only
US warship,The Sullivans,
anchors off Planorganic
Laptop and
home, solar
powered
Jim O'Connor,
Hungry Hill, Sandmount,
Castletown Berehaven,
West Cork. Tel. 027 70 71 7. International; 00 353 27 70 71 7
Mobile; 086 0643008
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