Adapting the weapons of war: farming, food and 100th anniversary of synthetic nitrogen's invention

I did a bit of radio today (4 and drivetime on RTE 1), about the new UK FSA research into the research on organics. You may have heard it, and, if not, I'll be posting about it here and writing about it in the examiner presently.

In the meantime, I'd like to draw your attention to a referenced article I have on the current website of organic matters.

This notes the 100 anniversary of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer and the Haber-Bosch process. I'm particularly pleased with it as a pice: its a tiny update on the printed version, and has those references put in: print sources tend to prefer articles wirthout references.

The one update is so chilling: thanks to pesticide use: there are not in fact 25 million dead birds each year, there are 70 million. Scary.

Puts relative levels of nutrition in conventional vs organic in the shade really...

Feel free to comment on the posting over there

Cheers Ollie