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B Phibonnachee- Well this isnt bias in the slightest lol
Husein Patel- @adMezil the ENVS-1000 assignment??
Nike6bt4bt- @skyler8perkins So what is your suggestion? employ tens thousands of workers to run their own 4 acre plot? Also, how is it less productive? I agree you may be able to get a higher yield out of a small scale operation over a large scale, but to produce the same "quantity" as large scale farming does would be too costly. How else are we to farm places like the prairies...in small individual plots? becuase the average farm in western Canada is close to 25,000acres...
Nike6bt4bt- @skyler8perkins Farmers are very much in touch with the land. They are constantly monitoring soil conditions, Hydration, and etc, to ensure they have a sufficient yield from the plot. Farmers always have the ecosystem in mind dont they? If they neglected the system, like you say, of course it will not be sustainable. Im not against small individual plots, my concern is that they will not be able to provide the world with food at a rate industrial farming can.
ohreallyandwhyisthat- @alwaysbeginnings I'm sorry if my responses seem "glib" to you. It's just that when there are ideas floating around that are so far out in left field it's had to take them to seriously. Back to the point. If you look at my responses, did say anything that was not true? Did I make any assumptions? Or did I only use facts? "people are starving, forests are burning" I agree. Would you like less forests to burn? Then you need to intensify what land you do have.
sth128- Wow this is certainly an impartial and well-supported video. Glad to see they give evidence to all their claims without fail. Buy seasonal produce! And in winter, hibernate! Why do you think animals hibernate in winter? CAUSE NOTHING *BLEEP* GROWS IN WINTER! What a load of fear-mongering horse crap... Worst assignment ever!
Nike6bt4bt- Show me HOW in the hell the world would be feed without large scale farming? Yes i kno it said most hunger is from poverty...but what if "industrial" farming dissapeared? ALL of North America and the rest of the world would feel the impacts!
Nike6bt4bt- I mean no dissrespect to the makers of the video. But this is a joke. Make sure you know all the repurrussions of a proccess before you denounce it. Also, you say that spraying chemicals on the fields ruins them and kills plant...? sorry, bud arent farms concsious of that and thats why they use them? to get rid of weeds and unwanted psts that would cut the production? regards
adMezil- @virus148 haha yupp...
Jimmy Dallas- Farming has become a collectivized industry dominated by a few massive corporations and barons. "Farmers" who own land, and work it at the same time hardly exist anymore in North America. Farming has become an industry like any other, and industry, has turned food and land into just another traded commodity, and redefined life as intellectual property. The alienation of labor is alive and more manifest then ever before. If this continues at this rate, modern medicine will not be able to keep up
ohreallyandwhyisthat- @SparklAmethystDragon There are a lot of claims out there that organic can be as productive as "regular" farming. However, every organic farm I know ( and I do know a few.. even some friends lol ), CANNOT compete with conventional farming with out either a) much higher prices for their products ( for example organic milk is 3x the price here ) or b) government subsidies. It's a fact. Meanwhile "evil" companies like monsanto have enabled farmers to basically double their productivity!
SparklAmethystDragon- @ohreallyandwhyisthat Plus you didn't actually answer my other points - The US consumes food on a rate that is totally unsustainable in its current form - Mega portion sizes cannot and should not be tolerated - That is the reason for massive obesity in the West - We all eat too damm much Cutting consumption, increasing diversity within our farms, eradicating over use of pesticides & encouraging more organic methods of agriculture is the only way forward
KlasikalFeeling- Well this'll be an easy assignment
REFFF5501- Eat Clean!
ohreallyandwhyisthat- @SparklAmethystDragon I'm not arguing your other points! :-) I agree 100% that our culture over indulges in food and many other things as well. I agree with everything EXCEPT irrational contempt of "industrial" farming. - It's called "industrial" to make it sound bad obviously. I would prefer - "efficient" farming! Anyway, I don't want to argue much more as I don't think we will agree anyway! Have a good day!
ohreallyandwhyisthat- @alwaysbeginnings Well the reason I didn't want to was that I had just finished explaining several of the same lies on a different vid.... you can view them here -- > w w w.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxZfahnvG0
Sky- @Nike6bt4bt ::: actually large scale agriculture is largely responsible for food insecurity, as we've displaced workers around the world. ++ large scale ag. is usually 20-60% less productive in terms of yeild than small scale agroforestry.
annam shakil- UOIT represent :P
ohreallyandwhyisthat- @alwaysbeginnings Organic food makes prices higher and makes available land less productive. So why are you not directing your hate to organic producers?? Because they are the "cool" thing that you people use to help you sleep better at night. So, People are starving, forests are burning. Enjoy your useless inefficient organic spinach contaminated with salmonella.
ohreallyandwhyisthat- Not even going to start explaining all the lies in the vid. Assumptions, opinons, and emotions do not make facts. You should spend some time on a farm.
Nikolas Mezarine- @adMezil meeeeeeeeeeeee
SparklAmethystDragon- @ohreallyandwhyisthat But there isn't a food shortage world wide - we just need to share it out better Monsanto encourages mono-cultures which doesn't not support diversity & insecticides which are affecting bee's and other pollinators Monsanto encourages 3rd countries to buy their seeds whilst ensuring that locally adapted varieties are taken 'off-list' so they can't be grown commercially Monsanto are only concerned with lining the pockets of their shareholders
adMezil- soooooo who's doing the assignment? o_O
Sky- @skyler8perkins enrich soil, instead of deplete
Sky- @Nike6bt4bt Looking at the problem in economic terms: lower prices, get jobs. Look at the problem in ecological terms: maximize our eco-system in a way that will provide a healthy base for our future. Unfortunately our current economic model doesn't believe in ecological constraints. The economic model creates more dependents and poor and a concentration of wealth- good reason for food to be cheap. I don't understand why you're against small individual plots, in praires, other farm systems
SparklAmethystDragon- @ohreallyandwhyisthat Utter rubbish - Organic farming can produce yields just as good or better than industrial farming As forests burning - why do you think that is? It's the stripping of virgin forest to provide grazing land or space to grow soya & maize for the massive cattle ranches We need to learn to eat less in the West - We consume far too many calories - There is more than enough food produced to feed the whole world - this film is very very accurate
k kj- I am a dairy farmer. I have a small farm and I am not a fan of large industrial farms but there are so many things wrong with this video that i don't even know where to start.
ohreallyandwhyisthat- @SparklAmethystDragon How do you "share" food? Of the tonnes of food aid that the US sends out to countries ( mostly to countries that hate americans ) how much of it ends up in the hands that actually need it? Monsanto has a monopoly ( or patent ) on the genetics that they produced. NOBODY is forced to use monsanto seed!!! Farmers CHOOSE that seed because of it's productivity and a reduction in expensive ( and harmful ) chemicals needed to grow it. How that choice is a bad thing?
Mike Bendzela- What trash this video is: Not a single source cited, and you show an airplane dropping fire suppressant on a forest fire to depict "pesticides": Why the hell do you do that? Every year the Pesticide Data Program tests common foods for pesticide residues, and every year they find that the residues are far below tolerances set by the FDA. This video is stupid.
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