chicken is singular.Originally Posted by Pasty
chicken is singular.
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Boring thread. Same old bollocks that organic farming won't feed the world. Neither had conventional yet. Even with world grain prices falling and energy prices leveling and probably going to rise again how can you afford to fertilise these super crops?
You and Danseyspass are wasting question marks
Ok pasty, i apologise for being pedantic. I take it your chickens are not singular.
One of them is.
Unfortunately people tend to argue on ideologies rather than look objectively at different methods of production and judge them on their merits.
Organic techniques can feed the world, as this article about a new organic technique for growing rice shows:
http://www.theguardian.com/global-de...ers-revolution
We tend to talk about farmers producing food but in reality we produce agricultural commodities. These commodities are traded on the world market, some are made into food, some are made into other more valuable commodities, (which may or may not eventually end up being eaten), but the primary concern is to make money, not to feed people.
We talk about the efficiencies of modern farming but whatever way you look at it growing corn to then feed it to a chicken or pig or cow that spends most of its life inside a shed in order to produce cheap meat is not an efficient use of resources. It may be a way of making profit, but we are confusing economic efficiency with sustainability. If we were really primarily focussed on feeding the World's population, agriculture would be centred on producing food for people, not animals.
You may say that such methods have made food cheaper, and yet even though food is cheaper than it has ever been in relative terms, there are still people in our own country who need to rely on the charity of food banks to feed themselves. there was a time when being fat was seen as a sign of wealth, because the person could afford to eat more than they needed to, now it is seen as a sign of poverty, the result of poor understanding of nutrition and cheap processed food.
It's clear that our food industry is dysfunctional, it benefits the processors and retailers at the expense of both the producers and consumers. The answer to food poverty is not for fewer farmers to produce more food at less cost: “In Britain, food poverty is relative and not absolute, as some politicians would have us believe. The answer to food poverty does not lie in cheap food. It lies in economic policies that create jobs and distribute wealth fairly.”
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