The wording in that title interests me. Let's examine that.
"Carbon Footprint of Homegrown Food Five Times Greater Than Those Grown Conventionally."
Now, disregarding the obvious demonizing of home gardening as a climate threat, I believe that comparing "homegrown food" to "conventionally grown food" implies that homegrown food and home gardening is unconventional. Therefore conventionally grown food must be produced by large corporate farms using GM monoculture crops bathed in pesticides, herbicides, and ammonium nitrate fertilizer while organically grown heirloom varieties, in a sustainable, intensive home garden must be unconventional. Have a look at the definition.
This definition distills down to "not . . . conforming to . . . rule, or precedent". I don't believe that growing food in a garden is unprecedented so that leaves "not conforming to rule" that can be stated as "disobeying the rule". The definition also states "free from conventionality" in other words "free from the rules". I find that quite interesting, the implication is that home vegetable gardening is against the rules.
Homegrown sounds nice, but with unconventional, the connotation is negative IMO.
synonyms
bizarre, eccentric, idiosyncratic, offbeat, unorthodox, unusual, anarchistic, avant-garde, crazy, far-out, freakish, freaky, irregular, kooky, oddball, off the beaten track, off the wall, out in left field, out of the ordinary, uncustomary, way-out, weirdo.
Didn't the government endorse and promote "Victory Gardens" back during WWII? What kind of gardens is this study promoting, "Defeat Gardens"?
"Carbon Footprint of Homegrown Food Five Times Greater Than Those Grown Conventionally."
Now, disregarding the obvious demonizing of home gardening as a climate threat, I believe that comparing "homegrown food" to "conventionally grown food" implies that homegrown food and home gardening is unconventional. Therefore conventionally grown food must be produced by large corporate farms using GM monoculture crops bathed in pesticides, herbicides, and ammonium nitrate fertilizer while organically grown heirloom varieties, in a sustainable, intensive home garden must be unconventional. Have a look at the definition.
Quote:unconventionalhttps://www.dictionary.com/browse/unconventional
adjective
- not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality:
This definition distills down to "not . . . conforming to . . . rule, or precedent". I don't believe that growing food in a garden is unprecedented so that leaves "not conforming to rule" that can be stated as "disobeying the rule". The definition also states "free from conventionality" in other words "free from the rules". I find that quite interesting, the implication is that home vegetable gardening is against the rules.
Homegrown sounds nice, but with unconventional, the connotation is negative IMO.
synonyms
bizarre, eccentric, idiosyncratic, offbeat, unorthodox, unusual, anarchistic, avant-garde, crazy, far-out, freakish, freaky, irregular, kooky, oddball, off the beaten track, off the wall, out in left field, out of the ordinary, uncustomary, way-out, weirdo.
Didn't the government endorse and promote "Victory Gardens" back during WWII? What kind of gardens is this study promoting, "Defeat Gardens"?
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