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Banned Herbicides & Pesticides
In message , Franz Heymann
writes So-called organic husbandry is, by my understanding, a set of techniques which aim to increase the levels of the 'agents' you mention. Rather than relying on factories to produce concentrated chemical feeds in an energy intensive fashion the aim is to increase the soils own fertility in the long term in a sustainable way. All talk of specific substances which can be applied to the soil or not is subsidiary to the underlying approach. That is a laudable attitude, but my worry is that I doubt if enough food to feed the whole world would be produced if organic farming principles were applied globally. There's plenty of food-producing capacity. It's the inequalities in distribution and consumption that create an apparent shortage. Developed countries (particularly the US) need to reduce their over-consumption and stop leeching resources from the developing world. -- dave @ stejonda |
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