leaking pen wrote:
Well, besides the issues that have been shown with too much corn
syrup . . .
As I said, one third of the people who will do not get enough to eat.
Too much corn syrup would be far better than starvation.
shipping foods grown here overseas not really all the econmocal.
Most US food is shipped overseas.
I fail to see how it uses more fossil fuels than fuels it produces,
please share.
See: Pimentel, D. and M. Pimentel, Food, Energy, and Society, Revised
Edition. 1996: University Press of Colorado, chapter 19. (Or Google "Pimentel")
And it will also help push new techniques and higher efficiency
growing, so that will help.
Not good. "High-efficiency agriculture" in the US means the rape and
permanent destruction of the land. See Pimentel, and chapter 16 of my
book. Essentially, U.S. corn production is a form of strip-mining,
where we destroy the topsoil and the water table. If we keep doing it
for a few hundred more years Iowa will look like present-day Iraq.
The arid US Great Plains are already in environmental peril. See:
http://www.gprc.org/index.htm
As I said in my book, agriculture is the most destructive industry on
earth and the sooner we get rid of it the better. We need to grow
food indoors. For one thing, this would use up thousands of times
less space, and with recycled water and nutrients from sewage, that
would consume no land or water. We need to get human beings out of
the ecosystem loop. Nature should only have to support wild animals,
not people or domesticated animals.
Fishing and growing meat in live animals is also backwards,
dangerous, cruel and grossly inefficient. This kind of primitive
technology is long overdue for replacement, like the internal
combustion engine.
Fortunately, the people at the New Harvest Research Organization
report progress in replacing meat: http://www.new-harvest.org/default.php
- Jed
