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How is your factory farmed tomato that depends on buried costs of fossil fuel, and inorganic fertilizers, and unsustainable resources not a luxury good? The lux
by tehchromic 11y ago
How is your factory farmed tomato that depends on buried costs of fossil fuel, and inorganic fertilizers, and unsustainable resources not a luxury good? The luxury is the cheap price, which is not sustainable.
Truly organic local food has been produced sustainably for millennia, so to call that a luxury while wallowing in cheap oil subsidized corn food is totally backwards.
- roel_v 11y agoGreenhouses produce energy, with solar panels on their roof, even when amortizing all production costs. Inorganic fertilizers are much more efficient than other methods; greenhouses need no pesticides because the environment can be controlled, and use friendly insects that eat the few bad ones there are. Did you even read the article?
- tehchromic 11y agowho is arguing against greenhouses? the article sets up a false dichotomy between local organic produce, which is more efficient by any measure that includes the cost of doing business, and greenhouses, which are not at all incompatible.