I saw Food Inc. One of the best documentaries ever made in my opinion.
Outlaw 19 hours ago
don't know how true it is, but I also heard their COKE is made from cow fat. Its not the normal COKE you buy in cans and bottles apparently, just wonder what else we're eating that we don't know of.
It was good, but glosses over the fact that without all these farming techniques food would be extraordinarily expensive and you'd be complaining even more about people starving. It's why "organic" farming isn't sustainable.
Oh yeah, and it made Ape get all hippy on me. So that part of the movie sucked.
Sure if you rely on the current food industry to produce organic foods. It showed very well that what is required is more localized farming in communities.
And btw, pretty much any hamburger and fries left out will look like that. The whole thing dries out before it has a chance to rot.
Unfortunately, organic food does not reproduce nearly as quickly as the shit they grow nowadays. There is no argument that it would be nearly impossible to feed the world on natural/organic foods alone. We have successfully backed ourselves into a corner.
Like I said in my previous post. With the current way the industry is setup, no you can't sustain a proper flow of organic food for the masses. To produce enough organic food, communities must become self sustainable. To do this, the major hurdle that needs to be overcome is inner city farming.
We still have waaay too many people. There is no way that NYC could sustain itself with inner city farming. We need a good plague to save the race...
I don't believe it's impossible. Though I wish I did know the answer, because that would make me a ton of money and help a ton of people.
But even if their was solid ideas on how to approach this, the American public would never do it. It's much too much like communism for America.
Sure if you rely on the current food industry to produce organic foods. It showed very well that what is required is more localized farming in communities.
I don't believe it's impossible. Though I wish I did know the answer, because that would make me a ton of money and help a ton of people.
But even if their was solid ideas on how to approach this, the American public would never do it. It's much too much like communism for America.
It WILL happen. Once oil becomes a luxury, so do bananas from Costa Rica, apples from Washington, etc. Globalization comes crashing down and all we're left with is local growers. Then you have the problem that we've destroyed our top soil by mono-cropping (or removed it altogether in cities). Our soil is addicted to fertilizers that only come from petroleum. We're fucked.
And I've got news for ya, AUS is even worse off. They've lost so much farm land to soil salinization its mind boggling. There is no fix other than time for salinization. major fucked++
And I don't make the connection between local growers and communism but whatev
Australia is working towards better water distribution to the inner dry lands. The desalinization plants being create as we speak will scotch for the current population, yet soon will also add to water supplies for the outback farmers.
A lot has to change, but it's not like we have options. It's gotta be done.