GardenBanter.co.uk - View Single Post - How they grow crops in Cuba with little fuel or pesticides

Ralph · 22-09-2008, 05:50 AM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden

johnny wrote:

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:30:22 -0700, (Ralph) wrote:

FDR fdr@kjdfgkdfkl wrote:

What exactly did we all do before there was oil and pesticides? You
know that it's a fairly new phenomenon.

They had methods of dealing with pests, although most have been long
forgotten. There have been a number of treatments for diseases which
have been taken over and pasturized or elminated all together. The
mainstream wants you to buy everything rather than figure out how to
solve it yourself for free.

But mostly they just lost large chunks of crops to pests. When the
pests ate the crops or the weather was really bad, they just died in
large numbers.

Heart disease and cancer kill about 1.4 million Americans each year,
diseases practically unheard of 100 years ago.

But at least they were energy-independent! As an added
bonus, I'll fix your last line for you:

The mainstream wants to buy things rather than spending all their time
trying to keep from starving to death.

Is that an either/or choice? lol Civilization and inventions like the
plow and grainmill kept people from starving, not mainstream corporate
America.