Re: Purple Loosestrife
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Purple Loosestrife
- From: D* S*
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 22:16:35 -0400
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:16:17 EDT Meum71@aol.com writes:
> Thankfully modern agriculture with transgenic foods has reduced the
> number of
> acreage need to produce food for the world, if we were to go to an
> organic
> form of farming, three times the amount of land would have to go
> into
> production for food crops.
> That's a scary concept-The push for organic food is what scares me,
> if in any
> amount food production is pushed in this direction the environmental
> damage
> will be catastrophic, with more and more marginal lands put into
> food production.
Yet meanwhile truck farms in California and other places produce crops
using tons of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, which not only destroy
whatever local ecosystem is left but run off into waterways to spread
these poisons into waterways and, eventually, the ocean. The farmworkers
in these areas have the highest rate of cancer and birth defects than
anywhere in the world, just so we can have crispy lettuce and
blemish-free tomatoes in January.
Somewhere between one extreme and the other there is a sane median.
Dean Sliger
Warren, Michigan, USA
Zone 6B
PS -- organic farming does not require more space than non-organic.
That's something concocted by condominium developers. It actually takes
less space.
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