Chapters 8, 10, 11

In chapter 8 of "The Omnivores Dilemma" pollan describes his experience on the Polyface farm and compares it to the Naylor farm. In this comparison he goes over the differences in the two farms, such as the sources of energy the type of crop along with each farms intended market. While doing so he reveals to us that there are many similarities between farms that are organic and farms that aren't organic. He then goes on to say "Polyface Farm is technically not an organic farm"(131). Upon reading about how the Polyface farm is almost self reliable and uses different animals along with their waste product to produce a small scale ecosystem of his own I was shocked upon reading that it isn't an organic farm when the farmer himself says "it is exactly the model God used in building nature"(215). His farm is what I would have pictured as an organic farm before reading this book, and this leads me to the conclusion that organic farming was a marketing scam created to steal our money. When people expect that their food is grown naturally when buying a product they expect a farm similar to the Polyface farm. The fact that farms like that can't even label themselves as such is ridiculous and has convinced me even further that buying organic products is a waste of my time.