Organic
farming is growing plants and raising animals without chemicals made in
factories. It's really the way farmers have always grown food - up until the last
60 years or so in the richer countries. Organic farming works with nature, not
against it. It is sustainable. That means people can carry on growing organic
food for ever, without need for oil and chemicals. Modern 'industrial' farming
depends on oil for both its machines and for its chemical fertilisers and poisons
against pests and unwanted plants (weeds). And I'm sure you know that using oil
adds to the 'greenhouse effect' (see my Guide on Global
Warming) and general pollution (see my Guide on Pollution
too).