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Organic’s Uneasy Relationship with Agricultural Science

Thought Blurb

Organic farming began as a challenge to mainstream agricultural science, unsettling a community proud of feeding nations through chemistry-led innovation.

When Organic Met the Real World

In the early nineties, organic stood outside formal science, confronting institutions backed by governments, policy, funding, and decades of yield-driven success.

What Organic Meant and What It Became

Organic started as ethical questioning of chemical dependence; it became a social and ideological divide between laboratory-backed science and moral, elite-led critique.

How adhering to Principle while Practicing is achieved

Principle survives only when organic engages science humbly, acknowledges past gains, invites evidence-based dialogue, and stops framing farmers and scientists as villains in a complex food story.