While I agree in spirit Everett the fact is that using organic farming farmers can only support 250 million people in the US. This was a high number when first calculated in the 1940's and has held up as an accurate number even now. Sooooooooooooo who is going to decide the 50+ million people that would have to starve to death?

The calculations are that organic farming can support 6 billion people. We now have 7.5 billion. Do you want to pick who the 1.5 billion will be that would have to die?

Canada's population has matched the world population and has also tripled so it has the same issues.

I wonder what names people would call the farmers if they had said, "I need to preserve my soil, so I'm going to let all those third world peoples starve." In the 1950's that was the option and that humanitarian action created the problems we are going to face in the not to distant future.