On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Pooh Bear wrote:
>>>> With all due respect I would like to know where the fertilizer comes
>>>> from that grows the corn? Isn't it a petrochemical based product?
>>>
>>> Are you suggesting that *fertiliser* is what the plant actually
>>> consumes to grow ? I suggest you learn something about how plants
>>> grow. They existed before fertiliser you know !
>>
>> Evasive non-answer. Farming *as practised today* is a very
>> oil-intensive process.
>
> It doesn't *have* to be.
Perhaps not, but the fact remains that right now, today, it IS.
