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>Has it? I thought that the worst thing for the environment was subsistence farming. Who says that subsistence farming is bad? I've always heard that large-sc
by olly67 8y ago
>Has it? I thought that the worst thing for the environment was subsistence farming.
Who says that subsistence farming is bad?
I've always heard that large-scale industrial agriculture is bad because it destroys the soil. Or that it breaks the soil up so it then blows or washes away.
- oblio 8y agoIf that were true modern industrial agriculture would self-destruct within 5 years.
- cmrdporcupine 8y agoIMHO modern industrial agriculture isn't using the soil ( in the strict definition of soil) anymore. It is basically just using the ground as a growing medium and then providing the nutrients that the soil would provide through applications of nitrogen/phosphorous/potassium. Every year I watch the sand from the farm next door runoff in spring rains into the ditch, which ends up in the creek across the road, which then runs down into Lake Ontario. There's no soil left. On almost all the farms here. But they can still grow things through 'artificial' means.