Farms: Industrial Farming vs. Organic Farming vs. Traditional Agricultural vs. Horticulture
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Sustainable farming doesn't have to be organic. My family operated a 200 year old farm, and in Europe many agricultural farms are older than that. Sustainability is not "new" but as we are changing how we grow food, it appears that we are getting more and more forgetful about how to do land management. In terms of environmental impact cost is a very strong indicator of impact. Most things cost is a function of energy. The more energy something cost to make the more it costs in dollars and cents. This can be in the form of labor, or fuel, or transportation.
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I could not bare listen to all of this. Horticulture is the most sustainable method to farm. Urban architecture can be inclusive of many sustainable systems {such as: farming, preparing properly, and distributing consumable products [that is food or drink (the only true use of the term consume)] appropriately; obtaining resources appropriately (where minerals can be found and extracted, while avoiding collateral damage to the landscape). Which can be done with better composed technology, crafting (for the best personal use), and recycling and/or fixing broken products/components; agreeing and instituting proper inalienable laws, that are truly natural (the old sense) or organic, for the purpose of defining liberty and virtues/personal sovereignty and fareness}.
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pls visit india's century old traditional agriculture by satish / youtube
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The Native Americans moved? Where? I know of the ones that were placed on reservations, and the ones that were massacred, I don't recall any fleeing to a place that was less capitalistic. Is there a secret colony of Native Americans living in Communist North Korea I don't know about?
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Sorry to say, from all your videos as well, i did not expect you to make that statement, the native Americans did move because of the capitalistic society which still exists today.
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“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…has not conducted any study that compares or quantitates the specific risk for infection with Escherichia coli O157:H7 and eating either conventionally grown or organic/natural foods. CDC recommends that growers practice safe and hygienic methods for producing food products, and that consumers, likewise, practice food safety within their homes (e.g., thoroughly washing fruits and vegetables).”
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horticulture comment is totally wrong....
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I don't know about the initial horticulture comment. Horticulture can also be commercial. But I do agree that sustainable farming does not necessarily have to be organic.
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Good lord, I didn't know people could exist as misinformed as Matthew Moore.
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This is largely foolish gibberish. Before publishing a critique, you need much better underpinning for your arguments. An example of this is your characterization of First Nations agriculture. On that subject, recommended reading would be Charles Mann's "1491" and "1493".
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Source me that. Its funny you only point out 1 off my statements.
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You are an idiot. Ecoli is 300x more prevalent in Organics than it is in non-organic certified. Horticulture would mean we all grow our own food. We can't all be unemployed and on welfare like you so that we have time to grow food at home.
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Your vision on native americans is wrong. They didn't move because the land became unobtainable, they moved because todays captalistic society, kicked them out off where they came from, because they didn't make any profit. Chemicals are bad and a horticulture enviroment would be the best. Or use biology by using insects to make a agriculture. Organic farming is the best and if industrial farming works then why do all these vegetables and meat gets diseases like Ecoli and bird flu.
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Banned for Hate speech and promotion of genocide.
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Add it all together, the only important word he said in this whole video was, "oil". I'll add another word, "mechanization". Oil + Mechanization = exponential human population growth (since the 1940's). That's the part which is not sustainable. We don't need more, better, more efficient agriculture. It's setting up all of the conditions for chaos. Good luck human race.
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So you can tell me how it works in the US but I can't speak to the EU? that's hardly fair. Especially since most of food safety in the EU is EFSA, and they allow a lot of things that would never fly in the US especially relating to food borne illness. EFSA is quicker to clamp on Chemicals and slower to clamp on harvesting and handling techniques.
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Waste from over production has to exist to prevent failure to meet demand when there are bad times. Economics balances this. Sustainability has nothing to do with waste. Producing less doesn't make something more efficient. It's just that when you have less of something you can't meet demand so there is no waste.
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New in quotes meaning this comes around every 10 years as a new thing. We kind of said the same thing... The challenge however is that the diversity has to be over 100s of feet not acres (for insects) because they are so small. and that lowers yield because that isn't good for pollination or root structures, or labor.
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That's not "new". If you have a restaurant that only serves biscuits and gravy, and ice cream, you will only have fat customers. If you have a balanced menu, you will have more normal sized people. The same is true of insects. But if you don't have lots of the same thing it is hard to get an economy of scale.
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Round Up isn't bad. BGH isn't bad. Roundup safe crops aren't dangerous. Where the danger lies is in the psuedo-science that comes from the uneducated not understanding the differences between selective breeding, gene slicing, and chemical augmentation. BGH is in humane to cows in large doses.
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And no none of those things are facts.