If you walked past a news stand last week, no doubt you saw the Time cover story about “America’s Food Crisis and How to Fix It”. The article was an unfortunate distortion of the facts behind the organic food debate and sustainable agriculture.

Our friends at the Farmer Gene blog posted a great response that aims to clear up the misconceptions behind the piece:

“How disappointing to read Bryan Walsh’s uninformed and inaccurate article (“America’s Food Crisis and How to Fix It,” August 31, 2009). Not only is he clueless as to what sustainable agriculture is, he doesn’t even get organic right. Organic is defined in U.S. law and regulations and does allow the use of chemicals (yes, they tend to be “natural” chemicals, but they are still chemicals.) Sustainable agriculture also is defined in U.S. law, and the two are not the same nor interchangeable…”

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