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So ... 1. 5k acre grain fields are an artificial monoculture we created that happens to be a great habitat for field mice. This versus going to dolphins' natur

So ... 1. 5k acre grain fields are an artificial monoculture we created that happens to be a great habitat for field mice. This versus going to dolphins' natural habitat and killing them while taking their food. 2. Those 5k acre industrially processed grain fields are actually a horrible way to farm and are reducing the arability of the land much more quickly than any other method we've come up with, so I view your comment as yet another reason why we need to wipe out megafarming and replace it with something more sustainable. 3. And before you bring up "but we'll starve!" a. We will anyway since we're using the land without replenishing it, and b. we could just stop wasting 40% of the food we produce to make up any deficit that comes from sustainable or regenerative farming, and c. you're trying to draw some sort of equivalency between dolphins and mice, so I just ask you to extend that equivalency to humans and ask yourself why people are any more important than the other 2.

bamfly 3y ago
> b. we could just stop wasting 40% of the food we produce to make up any deficit that comes from sustainable or regenerative farming, and Waste is high because food is cheap. Reducing waste will look exactly the same as making food expensive.
kortilla 3y ago
> a. We will anyway since we're using the land without replenishing it, and No we’re not. Soil management is critical to large scale farms.
- myshpa 3y ago
  And yet ... Researchers found more than 90 per cent of the conventionally farmed soils in their global study were thinning, and 16 per cent had lifespans of less than a century. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200914115905.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200914115905.h... Soil degradation costs U.S. corn farmers a half-billion dollars every year One-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing loss of soil fertility. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/01/12/soil-degradation-costs-us-corn-farmers-half-billion-dollars-every-year https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/01/12/soil-degradation-c...

bamfly 3y ago

> b. we could just stop wasting 40% of the food we produce to make up any deficit that comes from sustainable or regenerative farming, and Waste is high because food is cheap. Reducing waste will look exactly the same as making food expensive.

kortilla 3y ago

> a. We will anyway since we're using the land without replenishing it, and No we’re not. Soil management is critical to large scale farms.

myshpa 3y ago
And yet ... Researchers found more than 90 per cent of the conventionally farmed soils in their global study were thinning, and 16 per cent had lifespans of less than a century. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200914115905.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200914115905.h... Soil degradation costs U.S. corn farmers a half-billion dollars every year One-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing loss of soil fertility. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/01/12/soil-degradation-costs-us-corn-farmers-half-billion-dollars-every-year https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/01/12/soil-degradation-c...