Bill wrote:
In article , kT
wrote:
Gunner Asch wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:13:51 -0500, kT wrote:
RichD wrote:
On Jul 30, dejure wrote:
Is it really
superior to petrochemical fertilizer, or is it
guilty conscience liberal feelgoodism?
No, the petrochemical producs are better. They sell better
and the market doesn't lie.
In support of your smile: When farming, we would dump around seven
hundred tons of compost on a single one hundred acre unit. This
reduced our dependence on [incomplete] chemical fertilizers (heck, it
was winter, we had nothing else to do). The biggest "upside" was we
were not growing nutritionally hollow food. People often commented on
the better taste of things grown with compost and mineral
supplements. For example, try a garden fresh tomato with good soil,
then try one from a hot house supplier. The only reason we turned to
chemical (e.g., thousands of gallons of nitrogen pumped through the
irrigations circles) was to survive/compete on the market and, in the
end, the corn looked damn good. Still, just like us humans, plants
are more than just a little nitrogen, potassium, and ....... On a
side note, go look at the soil on many of the farms. It's dead.
FungiCIDES, pestiCIDES and so forth kill everything. Everything works
together, but we have a better way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/sc...v.html?_r=1&em
"If everyone switched to organic farming, we couldn't
support the earth's current population - maybe half."
Tough shit for the mammals, breeding uncontrollably.
Until one of the preditors gets hungry enough and comes looking for
long pig and you happen to be available.
A predator that doesn't know how to spell, apparently.
Get yourself an education, become a vegetarian!
Humans taste terrible, trust me.
Off by one letter and you are lost in particulars never mind the
intent. Just find fault a sign of a small mind.
Your posts contribute no thing.
Bill who doesnąt have to be nice.
There isn't much to contributer here, most of us are literate, competent
and capable of doing our own research, and taking care of our own needs.
What is happening on this planet is fairly straightforward from a purely
scientific perspective, you can spin it any which way you want, but that
won't change a damn thing. We're just along for the ride, that's all.
You are the one who is freaking over the compost thing, or lack thereof.
Compost is the simplest of your problems, and the easiest to deal with.
Nature has provided you with opportunities on this planet, if you choose
to screw it up because of ignorance, greed or lust, it's your problem.