Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Tommy Tolson <healinghawk@earthlink.net>]

I'm not certain that "organic" and "agriculture" go together.  Agriculture is part of the main reason we've lost so much topsoil.  Agriculture is domination of the land by humans lacking the foresight to care for the land.  I suggest that what we do when we grow organically is called "horticulture." It's the last human food production system that was sustainable, as far as I can tell.  How much of the present human population it will feed is, as far as I can tell, unknown. 

The UN isn't talking about choice, though, it seems to me.  There is no way the US model of meat-eating can continue, and the dairy industry isn't a lot cleaner, so vegan lifestyles are a survival device, rather than a choice, until we get our species out of population overshoot (Earth without cheap oil supports perhaps two billion humans, Richard Heinberg says) and recalibrate from there. 

Smiles.
Tommy

On 6/3/10 4:29 PM, Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

996154.36196.qm@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com" type="cite">

The vegetarian myth is disproved.  It is often stated that meat produces one-fourth to one-tenth the food that using that same land for a vegetarian diet would produce.  That is not the whole picture.  Animals who transform one-fourth of their food into meat transform three-quarters of their food into manures (high value fertilizer if properly managed and used) which is transformed into humus which is transformed into crops for both livestock and people.  Organic agriculture recycles everything and transforms inert minerals, air, water and sunshine into increased biota through feeding the microherd a full diet including animal wastes.  There is more life created into existence out of the dead planetary chemistry than vegetarians are able to account for with their tired false myth. [Lion Kuntz] 

 Much of the land in many countries is suitable only for pasture which can be used only to produce meat

_______________________________________________
Livingontheland mailing list
Livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland