Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Liz" <liz@allslash.org>]

And there is another reason. Two other reasons, actually, but one is an 
indirect result of the other. In the so-called "developed" world, much of 
the food is wasted, either before its end-user purchase or afterward. And 
there is a substantial and growing gulf between people who can afford to 
waste food, and continue to do it, and people who can barely afford to buy 
it to begin with. Take away those two problems, and there would be more 
available food for everyone. The trouble is that no amount of legislation 
would fix either one of them, and the people causing the problems are 
oblivious to social protest.

Liz
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com

> The reason why there's such a stark difference between the developed
and developing world is not because organic magically produces more
in developing nations. Rather, it is because the farmers in those
countries often lack the crop inputs used in the developed world to
obtain such high yields. As the inputs used in the U.S. involve a LOT
of oil, a resource we are running out of, this says to me that our
best route to maximum yields in the future is going organic now.