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Old Sat, Mar-14-09, 11:12
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Someone recently pointed me to a college thesis paper about J.I. Rodale and Albert Howard. Howard was the originator of the term "organic farming," and Rodale popularized it. But the paper points out a difference between the two: Howard didn't feel the need to prove scientifically that "nature's way" was the best; it just made sense because that's how things have worked for millions of years. Rodale, on the other hand, made it his life's work to promote research that isolated nutrients from organic foods, showing a quantitative difference from conventional foods.

Howard was fundamentally opposed to Justus von Liebig, originator of the "NPK" theory of fertilizer and the "fats/carbs/protein" theory of nutrition. Howard's view was that our health depends on the health of the environment - plants, animals, and soil - a qualitative vision that rejected chemical analysis. Although Rodale was opposed to the chemical fertilizers and pesticides, he accepted Liebig's basic formula and added a laundry list of new chemicals to it.
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