Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

So on target, he seemed to think organic has to go into Big AG to feed the 
world. He seems ignorant of the fact Big Ag can't feed the world right now; a 
billion people can't afford to buy their stuff & a billion more suffer 
malnutrition.

Small is beautiful. & healthier

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 5/24/2011 at 8:21 AM Liz wrote:

>The people who commented on his article seem to have set him straight
>pretty
>well.
>
>The stumbling block always seems to be the mistaken idea that large
>growing
>operations are required. You'd think some of these people would be old
>enough to remember Victory Gardens, or at least remember their parents
>talking about them (or smart enough to have read about them, if nothing
>else). Yet the fallacy persists that the only way to provide adequate food
>for large numbers of people is to grow it at a distance from where it's
>going to be used, grow it in huge monocropped fields, and then transport
>it
>to the point of consumption (or at least the point of retail sale).
>
>Liz
>
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>Subject: [Livingontheland] Is organic food the answer?
>
>
>>
>> this guy IMHO has been asking all the wrong questions  & getting useless
>> answers
>>
>> Is organic food the answer?
>> http://www.marcgunther.com/2011/05/22/is-organic-food-the-answer/
>>
>>
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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