有机食品果真贵的有道理.docVIP

有机食品果真贵的有道理？ 译者：?nickle 发表时间：2011-01-21浏览量：2066评论数：3挑错数：0 美国有机农业在过去的20年里发展迅猛，但是随着食物需求的增长、消费者缩减开支，绿色作物还会一支独秀么？ Is organic food worth the cost? 有机食品果真贵的有道理？ U.S. organic farming has grown wildly for the last two decades, but with food demand rising and cash-strapped shoppers pinching pennies, are greener acres still the place to be? 美国有机农业在过去的20年里发展迅猛，但是随着食物需求的增长、消费者缩减开支，绿色作物还会一支独秀么？ By Russell McLendonFri, Oct 08 2010 at 10:09 AM EST 罗素-麦克伦登，作于2010年10月8日 The phrase organic farming was coined in 1940 by Lord Northbourne, a British author and Olympic athlete who helped launch the organic movement. Joined by fellow organic pioneers like J.I. Rodale, Lady Eve Balfour and Albert Howard, he championed farms as natural ecosystems, and railed against chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The farm itself must have a biological completeness, he wrote. It must be a living entity ... which has within itself a balanced organic life. “有机农业”的称谓起源于1940年，当时的英国作家兼奥林匹克运动员诺斯伯纳勋爵协助发起了这项活动。同J.I.罗代尔、伊娃-巴尔福女士、阿尔伯特-霍华德等有机发烧友们一起，诺斯伯纳勋爵将农田视为天然的生态系统，反对使用化学肥料和农药。他如是写道，“农田本身必定有一整条生物链，必定是一个存活着的整体……在它内部存在着均衡的有机生命。” While those words still resonate with many farmers and shoppers today, however, they were drowned out for decades by famine. Earths human population grew 293 percent in the 20th century — compared with an average of 22 percent each of the previous nine centuries — and farmers couldnt keep up. As hunger spread, an Iowa agronomist named Norman Borlaug came to the rescue in the early 40s, using manmade pesticides, fertilizers and crossbred crops to start the Green Revolution, which saved countless lives and won him the 1970 Nobel Prize. 时至今日仍有很多农场主、消费者们热衷于这些有机食物，然而数十年来它们逐渐被一场场饥荒所淹没。20世纪地球的人类数量增长了293%，此前的9个世纪平均仅为22%，农民数量显然跟不上总人口的增长。40年代初期，饥荒大肆扩散，爱荷华州的一位农学家诺曼-博拉格提倡使用人造农药、肥料和杂交作物来阻止饥馑恶化，由此引出了绿色革命的发端，从而解救了不计其数的生命，诺曼-博拉格也因此获得了1970年的诺贝尔奖。 It also highlighted a common critique of organic farming: Its already hard to feed billions of people, even without rules against spraying chemicals or swapping