Greater functional gene diversity in organically managed soils suggests that organic systems may also support more stable or resilient ecosystem functioning.
Land under organic systems build up carbon in the soil, thereby ameliorating global warming.
It is certainly the case that most organic systems are anything near perfect.
It approves indoor, free-range and organic systems for chickens where the RSPCA's standards are met.
But the limiting factor of low levels of nitrogen in organic systems must be overcome.
The challenge facing policymakers is to develop government policies that support conventional farmers converting to organic systems.
Organic systems provide a number of tangible benefits over conventional agriculture in terms of biodiversity and soil conservation.
Given the firm consensus of contemporary science, there is a constitutive hierarchy: all molecules are made out of fundamental particles; all organic systems are made out of molecules; people are organic systems; and societies are composed of people.
Organic systems also provide high levels of animal welfare where the animals can go outside for part, or all, of their lives.
In this study we found that organic systems can compete very well with conventional farms when it comes to fruits and many kinds of vegetables.
Genetic tinkering has produced instead an infinite variety of races, including monkeys who are clever with computers, a horse than can switch to technology when its organic systems fail, and the hero Sigurd, who is part man, part lion.
