Organic farming : does it provide safer food than conventional farming? (part 1)

Abstract

The rise of organic farming was a direct byproduct of the Green Revolution that led to a massive increase of agriculture production worldwide using new technology, modern farming techniques, better hybrid seeds, fertilisers and pesticides. This modernisation led to increases in agricultural yields and food production, but the rise of environmentalism in the 1960s influenced by cautionary tales of industrial and domestic pollution started to make people aware of the dangers of agrichemical additives to farmland. This led to the rise of organic food that promised safer and heathier produce free of chemical additives. [excerpt]