Every day I read posts from activist zealots claiming the conventional food and agricultural system is immoral, unhealthy and unsustainable. The false reality they project of organic food as saintly while conventional agriculture is poisonous is shameful, uneducated and immoral. The next time you see a post on the righteousness of choosing organic food, please share these ten reasons why such actions are immoral and unsustainable.

1. It is a system built on fear-mongering and false claims
2. It intentionally uses more land for the same yield as conventional agriculture, leaving less forests and meadows to support nature and biodiversity
3. It campaigns to deny farmers in developing countries the chance to benefit from the same agricultural technologies, leaving them to struggle on as vulnerable, subsistence farmers
4. It pretends that its marketing label means pesticide-free, when many organic-approved pesticides are more toxic and less tested
5. With more crop losses and damaged harvests, it contributes more to food waste
6. It forces workers, often children, to labour in inhumane conditions, manually pulling weeds and picking off pest-ridden leaves
7. Its strict, arbitrary restrictions force farmers to lie and cheat in order to keep the organic label
8. It amplifies a dangerous narrative against innovation, progress, development and industry that stigmatizes farmers trying to make a living
9. Its cult-driven political ideology heightens the risk of crop losses, food insecurity and famines
10. Its lobbyists are not transparent, with groups like the Agroecology Fund secretly distributing hundreds of millions while hypocritically portraying industry lobbyists as the bad actors

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