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that's certainly one approach, but i don't think the model of industrialised agriculture and monocultures that such companies promote and depend on is sustainable in the long run. i prefer to seek alternatives rather than push it to the nth degree.
x-post: ws responding to aeson."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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Industrialized agriculture and monoculture is definitely the way to go. What we are doing is already too little in that regard. There is going to be at least 9 billion people on this planet. Chopping down what remains of our forests to feed them via old low production per sq m farming methods is a horrible idea. Vertical greenhouses, LED grow lights, saltwater greenhouses ... that is the direction our food production needs to go in.
The future (and in far too limited cases present) of agriculture is awesome if kneejerk activism doesn't stop it:
http://www.h2ofarm.co.ukH2O FARM were very excited to be featured on Countryfile 15th January 2012. We had welcomed Adam Henson and the Countryfile team to o...
GMO is in it's infancy, and already can give some great results, reducing pesticide and herbicide use, reducing tilling (and thus erosion and runoff), and reducing the footprint of any given yield. As the tech progresses we will see the further reduction or elimination of many of the natural restrictions (pests, yields, inputs) we have on growing our food. Stopping it from doing so would be a huge environmental harm in the long run.
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i think we're using the terms to mean different things, and that may be my fault for using imprecise language. i'm certainly not against using greenhouses and suchlike."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton
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Originally posted by C0ckney View Posti think we're using the terms to mean different things, and that may be my fault for using imprecise language. i'm certainly not against using greenhouses and suchlike.
I believe you aren't against this step in principle, but in practice those who are anti-GM and anti-factory farming are railing against the process that makes these next steps possible. Greenhouses are very expensive, you can't jump from backyard and subsistance farming to a multi-billion dollar greenhouse project. GMOs are very expensive to develop already, and to make it expensive to keep legal just pushes the industry into the hands of a very select few corporations.
The near-future state of agriculture is one we should be pushing harder to reach, because undeniably it's more environmentally friendly. (As well as creates higher paying jobs.)Last edited by Aeson; May 23, 2015, 21:59.
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It's terrible for companies, since it forces them to either cut costs or sink money into innovationScouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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