“be grateful for a cheap and abundant food supply.”
At what cost?
Are farmers replacing the trace minerals extracted from the soil? What are they doing to increase soil fertility? No till farming has reduced the soil losses which is great.
Imagine that the soil is a person. Injecting ammonium nitrate as a way for ever increasing yields, reminds me of other human behavior. We hand our farms and soil down to our kids and grand kids. Are we leaving it better or are we trashing it?
I don’t hate farmers, without them we would be in a world of hurt. That being said, much of their information comes from government, government schools, corporations that influence government and farmers. It makes me uncomfortable that our smaller farmers were pushed into becoming huge operations or sold their operations to large corporate farms. This has reduced our vision to very short horizons. What is the long view for the future? Are we leaving our farmland in better shape?
This is all on a thread discussing China’s trashing of a huge chunk of farmland. We should look long and hard at our farming practices.
Look, if you don’t like the products no one is forcing you to buy them. Tell me specifically what trace minerals are lacking? Plants do not yield well in the absence of trace minerals. What minerals are you talking about? Have you ever farmed? How me out here so I can address specific questions.
So, I see you are attacking corporations too. Do you want to rid the nation of other jobs? I have farmed on the side for about 4 decades. Farmers get most of their information from journals, not government. Not every government worker is corrupt, ok? You can see by my comments, I despise criminals in government. The USDA does a decent job. The animal division is run by veterinarians that do an amazing job of keeping foreign animal diseases out.
China is run by criminals, just like every socialist/communist nation. They have industrial contamination. We don’t.