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Simply put. Please America stop using more and more artificial modern chemicals in your farming and go back to tried and tested agricultural methods. Your soi
by rob_c 4y ago
Simply put.
Please America stop using more and more artificial modern chemicals in your farming and go back to tried and tested agricultural methods.
Your soil is getting destroyed through mega tractors. Your buying everything glaxo can sell and your harming your own wasteland that for some reason you grow copious amounts of corn on.
The problem is still there and making an article suggesting that it's not for a (surprise twist...), "the problem is worst than you think" ending, is just turning a topic into a discussion that should be settled fact.
- jl6 4y agoArtificial modern chemicals increase yield, which reduces food price. Yes, we should use less of those chemicals. Yes, that will hit the poorest hardest. Is this problem solvable? Maybe. But let’s not pretend it’s simple.
- toss1 4y agoit will really hit the poor hard when the soil depletion reduces yield permanently -and the phosphate supply is already coming to the end and costs increasing
- rob_c 4y agoPlease stop defending the failing quo with "but what can we do about manbearpig...". One of the first solutions is stop growing corn badly in the wrong place and grow more appropriate crops elsewhere. I never claimed it was easy I claim that it's obvious.
- Turing_Machine 4y ago> go back to tried and tested agricultural methods https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/images/US_Corn_Yld_Trend.png https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/images/US... "Tried and tested" agricultural methods produced about 20 bushels of corn per acre. Current "artificial modern chemicals" methods produce about 160. Eight times as much. > your harming your own wasteland that for some reason you grow copious amounts of corn on The reason is that it feeds a substantial portion of the planet.
- haspok 4y agoLong live High Fructose Corn Syrup!
- stjohnswarts 4y agoIt's no worse than sugar. Both are unnecessary for humans and can be extracted as needed from fats and proteins by the human body.
- SV_BubbleTime 4y agoAgreed, but we didn’t used to shove sugar in literally everything. Corn syrup mixes well into solution, it’s pretty damn stable, cheap, easy to store and measure, won’t clump… and yea people used to like x product fine, but really prefer it sweeter. It’s not that corn syrup is bad, it’s too good which is bad.
- rob_c 4y agoYet it is still to take off in Europe and people pay a lot of money to import European food worldwide... Strange...
- stjohnswarts 4y agoEurope isn't the world and neither is the USA, there is very little difference to the human body between HFCS and cane sugar. They are chemically very similar. Just don't eat so much of them and you'll be fine. The people of the USA eat far too much of both, and neither is good for you in the quatanties we have them in. I'm not sure about Europe, but I know for a fact that Americans eat far too much sugar.
- SV_BubbleTime 4y ago> I'm not sure about Europe, but I know for a fact that Americans eat far too much sugar. They are too. It's a global obesity crisis. The stereotype of the fat American isn't as unique as it was 20 years ago. I was in Germany and France recently, and while not "as bad" as a county fair in Oklahoma, it was obvious.