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I read The Omnivores Dilemma and share your believe that this kind of farming seems fine. I don't know whether this would work for feeding the entire planet. Ri
by passiveincomelg 8y ago
I read The Omnivores Dilemma and share your believe that this kind of farming seems fine. I don't know whether this would work for feeding the entire planet. Right now, farms like this are an exception anyway.
In my experience, only consuming animal products from these farms is a bigger hassle than finding vegan food.
- cwkoss 8y agoHighly recommend Joel Salatin's works - he has a really interesting perspective. Here's a talk of his on Cows and Climate Change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z75A_JMBx4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z75A_JMBx4 From my recollected (watched that ~6 mo ago), the amount of land needed to grow food for his herd is less than the amount of land that would be needed to purchase it elsewhere, because the rotation of the animals keeps his fields fertilized and trimmed to the optimum length for fast growth. Plus, by rotating in chickens, he's double dipping a bit. There are some people doing some interesting research into using herd animals to prep beds for annual vegetables: they let the animal graze as the seeds are starting to germinate, animals eat everything green. The germinating seeds are then able to fill the void left behind faster than anything else, because the farmer timed it properly.
- passiveincomelg 8y agoThank you for that link, very interesting! For some reason it hasn't occurred to me to Google the guy who Pollan admires so much in the book.