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Re: [Livingontheland] Britain must grow more sustainable food, says Benn
- From: Pete Vukovich <pvukovic1@yahoo.com>
- To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Britain must grow more sustainable food, says Benn
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:36:00 -0800 (PST)
I don't think any of this is going one direction on any continent. There's an interesting book called 'profitable organic farming' which discusses various eu countries marketshares/ %'s of land in organic production, along with a little history and cultural information written by John Newton. According to Newton, something like 75% of sustainable/organic food consumed in britain was until recently produced outside of Britain - which at the time represented the 3rd largest organic market in the world. I haven't had time to finish the book, but it looks pretty well documented. One obvious difference is Britain is aware that its going to continue to be a net importer of fossil fuel energy and they are clear that when they draw down on oil discoveries in the north sea they aren't expecting more to magically appear. They also probably realize where some of that imported energy (particularly lng) is coming from. Contrasted with the united states which as of last year was still being told beautiful fictions about having '300 years of domestic 'clean' coal' or '75+ years worth of domestic natural gas' , not to mention potentially huge as of yet undiscovered fields in the middle of anwar. --- On Tue, 1/5/10, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
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[Livingontheland] Britain must grow more sustainable food, says Benn,
Tradingpost, 01/05/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] Britain must grow more sustainable food, says Benn, Pete Vukovich, 01/06/2010
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