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This is the way. We need to go back to the way our ancestors did things. Factory farming will kill us eventually.

ch4s3 5y ago
Our agrarian ancestors were highly food insecure, and often died in droves if a few harvests failed in a row they also achieved this feat with more land per person under cultivation. Factory farming ins't ideal, but it feeds far more people on far less land. We should improve our methods, take soil health into account, and conserve water and other resources but there's a baby in that bath water. Land under cultivation in 1970 in the US was 464 million acres and is now about 384 million acres and production has nearly doubled. A lot of that 80 million acres has been re-wilded. We now have more tree cover than we have had for more than a century.
- rocqua 5y ago
  "there's a baby in that bath water" I love this turn of phrase. I might steal it.
idiotsecant 5y ago
factory farming will kill us eventually. Not factory farming will kill us in 90 days, on average, since that's how much food storage we have as a species.
MisterMower 5y ago
Yeah, speak for yourself. Foraging for berries and trying not to get mauled by a moose or bear? In case you weren’t aware, that’s how our ancestors did things. Factory farming is the only reason your great grand parents survived childhood. It’s what allowed your parents to be born and live long enough to raise you. An argument can be made that the internet and this website only exist because some really smart people weren’t worried about their next next meal every day and devoted their talents to making innovative technologies instead of foraging for food. The most charitable word I can use to describe this comment is ignorant.
- UncleEntity 5y ago
  > Foraging for berries and trying not to get mauled by a moose or bear? A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"... —edit— Much apologies I just can’t resist whenever someone mentions moose.

Our agrarian ancestors were highly food insecure, and often died in droves if a few harvests failed in a row they also achieved this feat with more land per person under cultivation. Factory farming ins't ideal, but it feeds far more people on far less land. We should improve our methods, take soil health into account, and conserve water and other resources but there's a baby in that bath water. Land under cultivation in 1970 in the US was 464 million acres and is now about 384 million acres and production has nearly doubled. A lot of that 80 million acres has been re-wilded. We now have more tree cover than we have had for more than a century.

rocqua 5y ago
"there's a baby in that bath water" I love this turn of phrase. I might steal it.

idiotsecant 5y ago

factory farming will kill us eventually. Not factory farming will kill us in 90 days, on average, since that's how much food storage we have as a species.

MisterMower 5y ago

Yeah, speak for yourself. Foraging for berries and trying not to get mauled by a moose or bear? In case you weren’t aware, that’s how our ancestors did things. Factory farming is the only reason your great grand parents survived childhood. It’s what allowed your parents to be born and live long enough to raise you. An argument can be made that the internet and this website only exist because some really smart people weren’t worried about their next next meal every day and devoted their talents to making innovative technologies instead of foraging for food. The most charitable word I can use to describe this comment is ignorant.

UncleEntity 5y ago
> Foraging for berries and trying not to get mauled by a moose or bear? A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"... —edit— Much apologies I just can’t resist whenever someone mentions moose.