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I think this was a great post, and it touches on a lot of things that I think about daily. I live in a rural area, with farms all around. Every day a new field
by RUG3Y 10y ago
I think this was a great post, and it touches on a lot of things that I think about daily.
I live in a rural area, with farms all around. Every day a new field goes up for sale, and a new subdivision of mcmansions is built where crops were once harvested. It's insane to me...where does it end? How much farmland can we give up?
As to unsustainable, automated mega-farming practices, I'm very much against this style of agriculture, but it's all about money. There's huge money in doing it that way, regardless of the cost in terms of soil destruction and health costs from producing food that is not nutritious (corn products are in every processed food these days - a lot of this stuff is like industrial waste).
I don't have many answers, the system is too large and complex for me to understand without devoting my life the the effort. I do worry about it every day though.
- jelliclesfarm 10y agoBut money is an artificial construct. We literally print money, yes? But food is real. Land is limited. You can't print land and once the top soil is gone, it's gone. Once it's under asphalt, it's gone. Once groundwater is polluted, it's gone. It's like cutting off a branch you are sitting on..we construct on land we grow food to accommodate expanding families but what will those families and their families eat if there is no land to grow food. It beggars belief. no words.
- RUG3Y 10y agoI agree with you. I can't comprehend that the incentive to behave this way is great enough compared to the destruction it causes. It's a guarantee that I'm missing a piece of the equation.