The case for organic meat.........

[redshirt27se]

blame agricultural subsidies


green isn't ($) green when it comes to farming. if you slaughter cows, what are you going to feed them? quality shit from old mcdonald down the road, or mass produced bullshit from the acme corporation?

 

[redsamurai]

blame agricultural subsidies


green isn't ($) green when it comes to farming. if you slaughter cows, what are you going to feed them? quality shit from old mcdonald down the road, or mass produced bullshit from the acme corporation?

you're right, specifically it's the corn subsidies. They're now even trying to get farm raised fish to eat the shit. Fish are not biologically programmed to eat corn, but I guess if you starve em long enough they will. Anyway, it's the denutrition of our food supply.

 

[EnderJE]

But let's look at the alternative. I understand that if we went to more basic means for feeding our crops, that our crop output would decrease. This would mean less food. How do we solve that problem?

 

[redsamurai]

But let's look at the alternative. I understand that if we went to more basic means for feeding our crops, that our crop output would decrease. This would mean less food. How do we solve that problem?

either we figure out a way to keep our crop yields as they are but with higher nutritional densities........or we force cut back on the amount of food in the supply chain. At some point the nutrional value of food is going to virtually disappear if we keep overusing soil. If my memory serves me correct, once you've made land barren from overuse.....it doesn't come back for like 500 years or more. I'll have to check on that figure again, but I remember it was a staggering number....possibly more than 500. There may very well come a point where eating even supposedly healthy vegetables will be near futile because it's all fluff........grown to be large and have mass yet devoid of baseline vitamins and minerals. What's the point then? I guess we'll have to buy synthetic nutrion from the pharmaceutical companies then huh?