There is a way of farming that regenerates rather than depletes the land. It is possible to do without the commercial fertilisers, herbicides, and pesticides, but then that wouldn't make money for Big Ag and the promoters of GMO's, so it is not exactly mainstream news. And animal husbandry is a necessary part of the whole. Bad news for wannabe insect farmers and producers of synthetic meat.
Yeah I've seen a few articles on farmers who are working out more sustainable ways of farming, which is wonderful. Of course the other major objection is that their produce is expensive, which it is because yields are necessarily lower. All of us will have to rethink our priorities if we are to survive.
Even if we carry on using chemical feetilisers doing so slowly removes goodness from the soil, unless we at least bury the dead in fields or redirect sewage there (ew).
Yeah our current agriculture isn't at all sustainable. I have a lot of sympathy for the Dutch farmers but they're campaigning to prop up a wasteful and destructive system.
There is a way of farming that regenerates rather than depletes the land. It is possible to do without the commercial fertilisers, herbicides, and pesticides, but then that wouldn't make money for Big Ag and the promoters of GMO's, so it is not exactly mainstream news. And animal husbandry is a necessary part of the whole. Bad news for wannabe insect farmers and producers of synthetic meat.
https://www.backtoedenfilm.com/#/
https://www.permaculture.org.uk/
https://www.tenthacrefarm.com/what-is-permaculture/
Yeah I've seen a few articles on farmers who are working out more sustainable ways of farming, which is wonderful. Of course the other major objection is that their produce is expensive, which it is because yields are necessarily lower. All of us will have to rethink our priorities if we are to survive.
Even if we carry on using chemical feetilisers doing so slowly removes goodness from the soil, unless we at least bury the dead in fields or redirect sewage there (ew).
Yeah our current agriculture isn't at all sustainable. I have a lot of sympathy for the Dutch farmers but they're campaigning to prop up a wasteful and destructive system.