is one other point to consider. If all the indirect costs of conventional food production, not associated with organic food production, were taken into account, organic food production costs would be the same as, or more likely, less than the cost of conventional production.
Conventional food production costs should include the cleanup of polluted water, replacement of eroded soils, the cost of health care for farmers and their workers, and the cost of restoring fish habitat etc.
As you can see, there are groups of concerned citizens who are working very hard to get the quality of our food supply back to the standards we once enjoyed. We have to realize that our commercially grown food supply is in bad shape, and that it will be up to us to change it.
One group that is working hard on the problem of food quality is the Organic Farmers Marketing Association (OFMA). They are involved in a battle to keep the big corporate agriculture corporations out of the organic food business, a situation that would seriously dilute the standards of organic farming.
They can be reached on their web site at www.iquest.net/ofma. It is up to everyone to support the organic farming organizations in their fight for their right to produce healthy nutritious food.
In this chapter we discussed the quality of our food supply, and how it got that way. In a later chapter we will look in detail at how the quality of our food affects our health, and what we can do to help this situation.
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