Worldwide Organic Food is a bad idea

Although I do believe that genetically modifying crops to be able to handle harsher climates is a great idea, there are safe organic ways to do this that do not involve science labs or spraying chemicals which have the added factor of human error to go horribly wrong. More so, I believe the issue regarding crops, organic food pricing, starvation, etc. , has more to do with unfair distribution of product rather than how a crop grows. But I feel that goes into another topic for debate and will do my best to stay on the point of this debate, whether or not organic is better for the planet. I will go through your points and give a rebuttal for each. "1. Organic foods have fewer turn over compared to conventional farming. In other words the produce less crops. Which means less food worldwide. " This one is definitely difficult to refute, as the number I am sure speak for themselves and I am not familiar with the exact numbers myself, so it would be pointless to try and debate this. The only thing I can say to it is that perhaps if more people grew individual crops that the yield on a world wide scale would not be a factor. "2. Organic foods cost more. With people pinching pennies as it is, it makes it harder to buy healthier foods. It's a choice between produce and processed. And a lot of families cannot afford the difference to supplement their diets correctly. " As I said in my opening remarks, I believe this has more to do with who has the crops rather than how they are grown. So, to me, this does not factor in whether or not organic is better. Again, if people were to grow crops individually then the cost would be labor. Also, I think a huge factor for this is picky eaters. You can literally find fruit plants and different types of wheat grasses growing all over the place for free, but people seem to overlook this all the time in favor of store bought or "farm raised" foods. "3. Because in some areas there is a higher demand for organic foods they have to look further then the local organic farm. This means more transportation costs. Plus allot of the imported comes from places that don't regulate what they call organic, like China. . http://www.organicconsumers.org...; You can go to my last two rebuttals as far as the demand for organic foods point goes. As for what China is doing to the food they export to America, I have my own reasons for believing why this happens and again this has more to do with who is managing the crops. The thing is the demand for a government to tackle a thing like food for a whole country full of people is pretty outrageous to begin with. Asking for a mass solution to smaller, more individual, need such as having food for people to eat is of course going to yield some less than desirable results. This world has been turned into a business world thanks to poor management of the industrialization where protecting the bottom line is more important than protecting the health of the masses. But I feel I'm going into another topic again so I'll cut that short. "4. It takes more time and therefore cannot be produced on a massive scale. They need to be tended to more (example: weeding)" This is perhaps another huge factor when it comes to conventional vs organic farming, and a very important one indeed. Just with the yield of crops, I am unfamiliar with the exact numbers as far as how long it takes, but I am sure conventional growing has shown to be much faster. This is another point that is hard to debate. I would imagine though that having a plant mature too fast could end up in it loosing some of its nutritional value. "5. Organic foods spoil at a much quicker rate and therefore cannot be transported to far away regions that have a lack of food. So it would raise world hunger. " This may be true but there are ways to slow the spoiling of food that will allow for them to be able to be transported in well enough time to still be able to eat them, especially with the current technology. You can put vegetation into vacuumed sealed containers and have them shipped to a place without food in a matter of hours. If the technology available was utilized better and the priorities of people were a little better placed we could easily feed everybody in the world. There are literally hundreds of thousands of planes flying each day in the world. "6. If they have a bad year it would be a disaster. Great Example: The Great Potato Famine of Ireland. . http://en.m.wikipedia.org......(Ireland) " This is to assume that modified crops cannot have a disastrous event occur, which with how nature is with the added factor of human error, I don't like to go off assumptions such as that. "7. The pesticides kill things like roundworms, and help to deter plant diseases that can cause you to loose your entire crop. The help control invasive species, and help protect us from disease causing pests. " The pesticides not only kill the roundworms but they have been shown to cause harmful side effects to humans who eat the food including death. Not to mention that these pesticides are also killing off bees and birds that are vital to the overall ecosystem of the planet. . http://www.nursingdegree.net... I do believe that, with proper management, genetically altered foods could end up being a great thing for humans but in a world that's currently run by greed and profit the health factors of these foods are questionable at best and it would be better suited for people to learn how to cultivate their own foods.