[David Icke]: Greenhouse gas emissions would go up if every farm in England and Wales went organic, finds study.
The increase in the need for imported food caused by a national switch to organic farming would mean higher levels of polluting gases. Suppliers would have to turn to overseas producers to source food as the amount grown in the UK would plummet.
And because crop yields would be almost halved in size if farms went all-natural, more land would need to be used and emissions would increase from tending to that, too.
More farmland in other countries would need to be made available, where food would be grown and then imported – meaning almost double the emissions would be released.
Laurence Smith, at the Royal Agricultural University in the UK who carried out the analysis, told the New Scientist: 'The key message from my perspective is that you can't really have your cake and eat it.'
Adding: 'There are a lot of benefits to the organic approach'.
The analysis details how the only way to reduce emissions from farming land, is to farm lesser amounts of land.
It states that farming and 'changes in land use' such as cutting down forests to make way for farming is the cause of a third of all greenhouse gas emissions. ' ...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>