Listening to a podcast I hear some commercial grower bragging his plants were grown "mostly organic". If meat is less than 20% of my diet I am not "mostly vegetarian" I am a meat eater.
The age old question. Who decides what is organic?
I hate to say it but there is many stupid people in this world.
If you were to ask 100 ppl on the street to define the term organic most would just stand there and drool.
Now organic can be a tricky topic, because some fertilizers are made from 100% organic materials but the company won't pay the exorbitant fees to have it listed omri or other certification. Companies like Espoma that use natural inputs don't certify because they can't. Blood and bone meal mostly comes from Mcdonald's Beef feed lots, feather meal from Tyson/Perdue chicken factories, cotton seed meal is one of the most heavily pesticide ridden crops on the planet etc..
Now here is something else to look at, grass is organic right in its definition of the word grass is an organic material, however if I use Scotts weed and feed on my grass the grass itself is an organic material but it was not organically grown. If I put that in my compost heap is my compost now not organic? Yes grass is natural, grown with sunlight and water, it is "organic". Grown with chemical fertilizers its not organic, again this isn't very difficult. Your also weed and feeding the cells in your body if your drinking well water near that grassy patch, fyi.
Also some mined minerals that are commonly used in gardening are technically organic because they come from the earth but they cannot listed as organic. Can you list a couple?
fertilizer industry was born from the bomb making industry during the world wars
they noticed the nitrogen left over from bomb making made plants green
that is right, the same select group that made out supplying precursors for bombs created the nightmare of nitrogen fertilizers because they wanted to make extra cash from waste munitions
What ever you're smoking--I would be careful in sharing it, as you are 100% wrong (fake news?). Here are the facts--
Neolithic man probably used fertilizers, but the first fertilizer produced by chemical processes was ordinary superphosphate, made early in the 19th century by treating bones with sulfuric acid. Coprolites and phosphate rock soon replaced bones as the P source. The K fertilizer industry started in Germany in 1861. In North America the K industry started during World War I and expanded with development of the New Mexico deposits in 1931 and the Saskatchewan deposits in 1958. Modern K fertilizers are more the product of physical than of chemical processes. The first synthetic N fertilizer was calcium nitrate, made in 1903 from nitric acid produced by the electric arc process. The availability of synthetic ammonia after 1913 led to many new N fertilizers, but physical quality was poor. In 1933 TVA was formed with a national responsibility to increase the efficiency of fertilizer manufacture and use. More than 75% of the fertilizer produced in the United States is made with processes developed by TVA.
https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/sssaj/abstracts/41/2/SS0410020260?access=0&view=pdf
The following observation is more accurate than what you said--
During the 1940s, fertilizer exploded in more ways than one. During the war, nitrogen was one of the prime components of TNT and other high explosives, and the U.S. government built 10 new plants to supply nitrogen for bombs. After the war, those plants produced ammonia for fertilizer. Fertilizer use exploded, in part because the supply was there and in part because farmers and scientists understood how important nutrients were to crops.
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/crops_04.html
So to say the "fertilizer industry was born from the bomb making industry during the world wars" is 100% pure bullshit.
And this applies to my hydroponic growing methods how?many people fail to grasp that there are complex relationships between plant roots, soil life, and contents of the soil
synthetic fertilizer will grow plants with TOTAL disregard for these natural relationships.- but with long term diminishing returns and higher and higher demands for synthetic fertilizers, and after years of application the land is left void of the soil life necessary to maintain those relationships necessary for natural growth of plants
i assure you there is a difference between the 2 methods
seems like you are providing eveidence the fertilizer industry DID spring from bomb making during (and in between) the world wars....
ur quotes (and bolds) include references to world wars
tva was made to create power for manhattan project, which developed the A-bomb...
maybe you copy & pasted the wrong material, then bolded the lines that would go against your argument rather than support it?
many people fail to grasp that there are complex relationships between plant roots, soil life, and contents of the soil
synthetic fertilizer will grow plants with TOTAL disregard for these natural relationships.- but with long term diminishing returns and higher and higher demands for synthetic fertilizers, and after years of application the land is left void of the soil life necessary to maintain those relationships necessary for natural growth of plants
i assure you there is a difference between the 2 methods
And this applies to my hydroponic growing methods how?