Myths about agriculture

• Organic is better for the environment.
• Organic food is more nutritious.
• Organic improves animal health and welfare. 
• You can replace conventional health care with natural methods.
• Grass-fed is better for the environment.
• Grass-fed is healthier.
• Grass-fed improves animal health and welfare.
• You can graze year-round everywhere.
• Pasture meets the nutritional needs of all ruminants.
• You should buy "local."
• Local food is better for the environment.
• People and companies that sell organic, natural, sustainable, grass-fed, and local food are more ethnical than people and companies that sell conventionally-grown food.
• Confined livestock are sicker and need more drugs.
• Outside is better than inside (for livestock).
• Livestock are force-fed.
• Livestock are just like their wild "cousins" or ancestors.
• It is unnatural to feed grain to ruminant livestock.
• Animal rights organizations know anything about livestock or care about their welfare.
• President and Mrs. Obama know anything about agriculture.
• Government programs which support local, sustainable, and organic food production are good for the environment and tax payer.

That's right. These are statements that I consider to be myths. My opinions. Of course, I would defend these opinions vehemently. In my opinion, the public isn't becoming more educated about their food and agriculture. Their level of stupidity is increasing, as they fall prey to all the half-truths and lies being spread by the liberal media and advocate groups that simply want to tell everyone else what to do and have no concept of agricultural production and no respect for science. I bet most of them have degrees in liberal arts!

An efficient agriculture based on sound scientific reasoning is what's needed.