The farming model used by industrial agriculture is having an increasingly negative effect on our environment while over exploiting our ever decreasing resources, like fossil fuels. Scarring the planet with deep mines for phosphates and other minerals. It has destroyed nearly 30% of arable land in last 50 years, that is an area roughly the size of Italy. It is using up fresh water supplies at an unprecedented rate and contributes to climate warning.
But we also have Permaculture. This enables us to design sustainable systems that take their inspiration from nature and living ecosystems. Abundant crops through a web of relationships, where waste produced somewhere becomes a resource somewhere else. Like nature it creates loops where everything is reused and sustainable. This allows us to efficiently use and turn the maximum amount of energy into production with the minimum of inputs and resources.
So why are commercial growers not adopting it more quickly? Probably because these methods tend to be labour intensive rather than machine based. They tend to work better in smaller, local communities rather than large fields of easily machine harvested mono-cultures. It does away with the need for transport and its costs. The produce is fresher, cheaper and locally available. So it does away with the need for large refrigerated warehouses to store the produce for weeks before it is shipped to supermarket shelves. Lastly, the methods of growing can be used by anyone, individuals and small communities. So someone would lose profits.
The ability of people and communities to regain food sovereignty by abundantly growing their own cheap and healthy food and so attain self reliance does not suit the aims of our shadow government, who reserve the right to starve you into submission, should you decide to withdraw your labour or disagree with their policies.
David Hogan
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