Quote:Well the industrial farming system we have currently is depleting all our soils of their nutrients and making it unusable. Phosphorous is running out, and many of our current fertilizer kills soil and takes far more water than natural. The nutritional density of our veggies is down big time compared to 50 years ago.

 

I think what you're calling a farming system is more like widespread bad practices/techniques and probably more prevelant in some developing countries rather than here.


If I made my soil unusable then I'd quickly be out of a job. So that is definitely not part of our "farming system" out this way. I can't speak for other places but all of the stuff you're talking about is very carefully tracked and monitored in the Central Valley, and I'd wager we're probably the most industrialized agricultural region in the world.

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