To only mildly oversimplify - Due to the way corporate law is written and the nature of the biz-gov relationship, the SOLE responsibility of corporations is to provide quarterly (read: short term) profits for their shareholders.

That means gov is the problem, not the solution. (Not defending corporations, mind you!)

The up-side of this is that when we all decide we will pay for green technologies, organic foods, & similar, those will be provided en masse (with the subsequent drop in price) by those striving for said profit.

That said, the long-term solution is to sever the ties between companies and government.

Exactly.

Buying organic is both good for the individual and good for the population in that manufacturers, wholesalers, & retailers then have a higher demand, so they spend more on organic & less on conventional, AND the price to the individual drops.

I buy organic and will continue to do so.

I also buy local whenever possible and grow my own food in my garden in the warmer months.

Not easy, but not too awfully hard. If you don;t have available land, get pots.

We've got lettuce (3 kinds), zucchini, spinach, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, and more...plus a strawberry patch! We started a grape vine last year that's taking off this year (though no grapes, yet).

ya and industrial ag. is SO much better... ??? WTF? McGruber??!!

my tip-
eat local. (basically look at the source of your food and the transport it takes to get it to you)
stop having babies.

and no- we probably can't feed the whole world on a local diet cuz we have too many f'n people. (but we can TRY) and the appetite of those people is just ludicrous. but we can't continue to eat pigs that swim in their own shit, or plow up and spray down miles of land for one crop- just to add a cheap sweetener to everything we eat.

I choose not to participate in these activities- and my choice is demonstrated by NOT buying it. I don't think boycotting really works large scale no matter how much we would like it to but I can choose not to participate in that game anyway. And I, like many of you, hope that my purchase of organic items tells the businesses selling it, what I'm looking for so that they can support it more- but i'm not so stupid as to think that means that an organic label isn't used just to sell me more shit. Green washing is getting so bad that its hard to trust ANY label. BUT i still can look at the source of any item my money purchases and decide at that moment what i choose to support with it.

i'm probley preaching the choir on most of this, i was just a little in shock of reading: "We would not be able to feed the world on organic food and if we did the environmental effects would be worse." i would LOVE to see the literature that supports this idea. and what "WORSE" could possibly be?