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There’s 6 billion people on Earth. Mass production techniques in agriculture are necessary to feed them all.
correction – 8 billion +
Satan is responsible
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3s.htm
Luddism and back-to-the-past craziness will be with us always.
Cronkite, no dis, but I believe I have a cure for your belief that anyone can put the agricultural revolution genie back in the bottle.
Behold! The nation’s largest (and the globe’s second largest) trade show!
Spend two or three days walking through this wonderland, and the scales shall fall away from thine eyes. Guar-ON-teed.
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Jake it’s really not about Luddism. It’s about providing the consumer market and chefs with food they want. It’s about marketing. It’s about reducing farmers input costs and maximizing what they can produce (dollar wise) from a given acre. Foodies, and chefs will pay more for local meat, poultry and produce.
For amateurs like me, once I switched to growing organically, It made my life a lot easier and a lot more fun. It doesn’t take any more effort and I know the kids can go out into the garden and pick whatever they want, at any time, without worrying about it.
My biggest problem is the damn deer, who seem to like my veggies as much as I do. Do you have any wolves we can import?
We have coyotes, now and they are big. What we need are more hunters.
But don’t be fooled by the sham of organic food. It’s just another mass market niche that will be exploited as coldly and as efficiently as possible. I don’t mind it at all — and if you can afford boutique veggies, God bless.
But to think that the entire global agrisystem can go back to some quaint, time that never was and still feed everybody is Polyanna crazy.
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