tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7377497904882186501.post3810654094890752626..comments2024-03-22T11:58:02.835-07:00Comments on Garden Earth - Beyond sustainability: In defence of farmingGunnar Rundgrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11869055229248959119noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7377497904882186501.post-17092312534834419742022-06-13T10:59:17.623-07:002022-06-13T10:59:17.623-07:00Insightful.
George Monbiot is a clever guy and ma...Insightful. <br />George Monbiot is a clever guy and many of his writings are useful and good, but not all. Sometimes he is out on an exploration of a subject on which (I suspect) he will later change his mind.<br />I very much liked his live on-line-youtube-documentary about a river in Wales, where chicken factory eutrophication had killed the river.<br /><br />I am also very skeptical of indoor-grown, substrate isolated foodstuffs. It is a sign of hubris when we think that we "know" what plants need to grow healthy food. <br /><br />The most beautiful critique of the vertical-farming idea is the art/science project that Kris de Dekker and friends did a last year, when they grew a loaf of bread of indoor wheat.<br /><br />https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/02/vertical-farming-ecosystem-services.html <br /><br />I have also heard a slightly different critique regarding substrate grown tomatoes here in the Netherlands where I currently live. The fertilizer companies know what to put in, but many trace elements like molybdenum are expensive, and the customers anyways don't notice the difference. Therefore, to save cost and improve business margins, those elements are excluded. However, I wonder, is it then still a tomato? <br /><br />Peace,<br /> GoranGöranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02375637941166085188noreply@blogger.com