For example, in way # 3 on organic farming, the link goes to a Reason online article, not the Research Institute for Organic Agriculture and therein lies the interpretational problem of one of the statistics allegedly from the institute's study:
From the Spike link:
Why it Really Isn’t:
First off, it isn't healthier. A Swiss study by the Research Institute for Organic Agriculture found the nutrients "in the organic systems to be 34 to 51% lower than in conventional systems."
Not exactly. From a link at the institute's webpage:
Mäder’s team found that over the course of the study, the amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus, and other nutrients added to the soil were 34-51 percent lower in the organic systems than in the conventional systems. But, because the crop yields from the organic systems were 80 percent as large as those from the conventional systems, the organic systems seem to use their resources more efficiently, according to Mäder.
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