Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Yeah, I'm guessing which will get us first, global warming or Big Money. Best get set to produce & preserve our own local food. Or move north. No, that doesn't make me a Prepper like on TV. They don't know nuthin

On 9/4/2014 2:16 PM, John D'hondt wrote:

You got to love those optimists. I am going nearly deaf from the drums beating up for WW3. Russia has gotten one week to stop doing what it has not done. Can't help but wonder whether any one of us will still be around in 2020.

John

Family farms are better for sustainable meat production, as opposed to CAFOs, yet they're being decimated by Big Ag financially. The 8 percent used to grow food for direct human consumption could easily be ramped up by decreasing acreage for animal feed, but they keep wringing their hands over how to feed 9 billion

paul

Meat production is projected to double by 2020
More than two-thirds of all agricultural land is devoted to growing feed for livestock, while only 8 percent is used to grow food for direct human consumption
Consequences of increased global meat consumption on the global environment -- trade in virtual water, energy & nutrients
https://woods.stanford.edu/environmental-venture-projects/consequences-increased-global-meat-consumption-global-environment

Burgeoning appetite for meat. 50 years ago global consumption was 70m tonnes, by 2007 268m tonnes
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/04/daily-chart-17

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On 9/3/2014 6:47 PM, Mike wrote:

5407B6BA.8000304@mlxvi.org" type="cite">All so true. Another example is Australia. Most of the place is good for one thing only. That is kangaroos. But they kill the kangaroos and put on beef. And destroy the environment in the process.

And then there is this economy thing. And that screws everything up. :-)

Mike