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“The challenge for the ethical eater is to choose the diet that causes the least deaths and environmental damage. There would appear to be far more ethical support for an omnivorous diet that includes rangeland-grown red meat and even more support for one that includes sustainably wild-harvested kangaroo.”
“Factory-farmed pork is hardly an ideal food—but pigs from small farms might be more likely to make you sick”
“In the ‘60s, vegetable garden plots and a biodiversity-filled landscape in public schools were a common sight. In contrast to the students of today, elementary school children then were made strongly connected to nature. Irrespective of gender, we tilled the soil sown with onion, radish, eggplant, cabbage and tomatoes. Armed with the required bolo, as there were no “terror plots” and security checks to contend with, we took responsibility in watering the vegetables and rid them of pests and weeds.”
“In his new book “The Vertical Farm” (St. Martin’s, 2010), Dickson Despommier, a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University, argues that in order to feed the cities of the future, we will need to learn to conduct agriculture in a new way—vertically. Specifically, he proposes building farms in skyscrapers, so as to use less land and to waste fewer resources.”
“Message on the occasion of a Seminar dedicated to the late Nobel Peace Laureate Norman Borlaug sponsored by the National Academy of Science and Technology, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), and the SEARCA Biotechnology Information Center, Dusit Hotel, Makati, Philippines, March 1, 2010.”
“The National Research Council has produced Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century, a report describing how farming practices and thinking need to change so that society and farmers can both thrive.”
“As of last official count (2002 Census of Agriculture), 3.32 million hectares of our land were planted to coconut, against 2.5 million hectares for rice, and 1.4 million for corn. There were 1.4 million coconut farms, while rice only had 1.35 million.”
