[OfOneEarth]

Okay, perhaps I have drifted off topic.

But lets deal with your later link. Copied straight from it:

Cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution. [how?]

Energy intensive inputs to farming would fall, with fertilizer inputs cut by 95% and sprays by 98%. [fair enough, what about the drop in output though?]

More wildlife supported. [most spurious suggestion yet]

Jobs in the countryside would increase, including a 73% increase in farm employment. [there is no shortage of jobs in the countryside, I assure you, there is a shortage of people looking for the jobs though]

As organic fruit and vegetable yields compare favourably with conventional agriculture, organic farming could, with some adjustment, supply similar volumes as at present, or even increase output if necessary. [rubbish, as I have outlined before, the chance of crop loss or rejction due to lack of quality is always higher in organic systems]

Due to the need to abolish intensive pig and poultry systems in organic agriculture, chicken, egg and pig meat production would fall to roughly a quarter of current levels, making large quantities of grain available for human consumption. [you can't live on grain alone, where is the protein going to come from?! How much land are you going to dedicate to outdoor pigs and poultry production!]

Dairy production would fall by around 30%-40%, unless herds were to be re-established and dairies were to re-open in parts of the country which have lost them. [already ready have a massive lack of milk supply in the UK, in fact we have not met quota for years, we are importing milk and dairy products, how environmentally friendly is that!]

While the amount of wheat and barley produced would drop by around 30% [try 50%] due to lower yields, because far less grain would be fed to animals there could be as much wheat and barley available for human consumption under an organic system as there is at present. [you can't live solely on grain!]

A wholly organic agriculture could actually produce more beef and lamb than at present, with beef production rising by 68% and lamb by 55%. [rubbish- beef and lamb production in this country is curtailed by the lack of animals in the system and poor returns on the end product, there is no lack of land for them, and there is scant difference between extensive conventional beef or lambd and the organic version of the same]