Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>]

> Glad that sparked some debate. Naturally I can't agree 100% myself with
> everything I need to pass on. That said, animal prices are rising, and feed
> prices are a direct cause. As you said, "The amount of land is not as
> important as what corn growing DOES TO the land", and I'd agree. However,
> land that grew other food crops is being diverted to corn and that cuts the
> quantity and raises the price of those other crops.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
>   
Sorry I forgot to edit the subject line before...oops.

Yes, the diversion of land to corn is a problem, but the price is not, I 
guess, is one of my points. Cheap food has encouraged people to devalue 
the land as though it doesn't require as much direct input as it gets 
from natural systems, and cheap food diverts money away from our land 
husbandry system into manufactured junk and fiscally irresponsible 
entertainment programs.
The poor people in our country probably spend half their income on food. 
That isn't because they should get cheaper food, but because the people 
are of so little value to our System of Systems. Meanwhile, people who 
already have money get even more money not because those people have 
anything more to offer as human beings, but because their money is more 
valuable than they are (and Mr Ben a.k.a. 'Helicopter' Bernanke has just 
kicked our savings in the teeth, making human beings even less valued).
The value of people to the land has been almost completely forgotten as 
petroleum has provided the Instant Gratification of pesticides, power, 
and cheap ignorance (ignorance used to be expensive to a frontier 
person, now it's a suburban psychological asset).

"The most effective fertilizer is the farmer's footsteps." - Chinese proverb

Dan