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by deialtrous 8y ago
That's simply not true. Low axle weight and low pressure both reduce soil compaction tremendously, to the point where it no longer causes any at all when you get small enough. This is easily measured. A garden tractor is 1000 pounds
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by deialtrous 8y ago
We already can do all of that, we don't need robots. Most farms have been no till for years now, the idea that fields are plowed is an anachronism. This is more tech wankery, people with a particular technology trying to shoehorn it
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by deialtrous 8y ago
For the 30 years where it was one project, the community was split? And now that it has been forked because of outside political issues being forced in, that's the same amount of split as the last 30 years?
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by deialtrous 8y ago
This is one of the issues I've noticed that has the biggest disparity between evidence and common belief. We have mainstream reputable people and organizations actively promoting polyunsaturated fats as a "healthy alternative&quo
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by deialtrous 8y ago
>Favoring stuff with Greek/Latin names is just a bunch of Euro-centrism They said "Greek/Hebrew" not "Greek/Latin". >which isn't really a good look How is that exactly? Why would it be bad for
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by deialtrous 8y ago
I think it says that people are more concerned about being poisoned than they are about a website being slightly more or less crappy than it would otherwise be.
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by deialtrous 8y ago
Because all available evidence shows that seed oils, which have only been consumed for 100 years and were previously used for paints, lubricants, water-proofing, etc., are highly correlated with a number of inflammatory disease processes, i
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by deialtrous 8y ago
Yes. People think you can't do factory farming of goats because current goat breeds do not tolerate confinement and simply get sick and die. This used to be true of hog breeds as well, but people purpose bred for animals that can wit
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by deialtrous 8y ago
>How can you be against cruelty to animals and still regularly consume meat? Because those are two separate questions. I eat meat from animals I raised and killed. I know there was no cruelty involved. I do not eat meat from stores or
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by deialtrous 8y ago
>Yes, but up until decent, clean deliveries with the option of c-section, and anti-biotics child birth killed 5% of mothers[2] But you are conflating very different issues. You can't give c-sections the credit for the benefits we g
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by deialtrous 8y ago
>disguises the fact that selective breeding is also a mechanism for modifying the genes of the plant or animal. It does not disguise that fact, as that is not a fact. Selecting genes is not modifying genes. >in most cases the fear th
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by deialtrous 8y ago
No he isn't. Breeding for crappy tomatoes has only gone on since the 1940s, not for thousands of years. The thousands of years of breeding was for good tomatoes, and the last 70 years or so has been ruining that thousands of years of
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by deialtrous 8y ago
But the setup described on your website is more work than just an ordinary garden. Maybe it is a regional thing, I don't know where your main market is, but here in Canada even in low income rural areas the vast majority of people abs
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by deialtrous 8y ago
People you know of, not people you know. If you knew him, you would know he doesn't actually farm, his money comes from selling overpriced lettuce to expensive restaurants. And that the entire market in Montreal is saturated just fro
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by deialtrous 8y ago
The ag industry doesn't care about what some people would like to do for a living, they care about making money. That's why they shut out small operations deliberately rather than supporting them. As an example, the big pork pro
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by deialtrous 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand the market of your product. Is the intent to trick people into gardening by making it seem "high tech" or trendy or something? Are people actually willing to do more work to grow food if you make i
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by deialtrous 8y ago
>But yes, being able to produce fresh food better, faster and in more controlled way is definitely worth pursuing for humanity. But it isn't better. And why is making worse food faster worth pursuing for humanity? All the availabl