"Steve" <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Pooh Bear wrote:
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> > EatMe wrote:
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> >
> >>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 !
>
> Getting crop yields anywhere NEAR high enough to feed the world
> population with existing cropland (let alone have leftovers for
> biofuels!) ABSOLUTELY REQUIRES artificial fertilization, whether by
> petroleum-derived fertilizers or mined deposits of nitrates (eg bat
> guano). Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional.
This is only true if your talking the kinds of foods that people are used
to eating (ie: wheat for example) And if your including all the food that
needs to be grown to feed cattle to produce beef.
There are other foods that are much higher nutritionally, and require
much less fertilization. However they are not common on the American
table. And of course, beef is terrible as far as that goes. Even buffalo
meat costs less per-pound to grow than beef does.
If tomorrow all white bread sales were halted and replaced with wheat
bread
sales, it would probably drop the amount of wheat needed to produce
the same amount of nutrition obtained from bread by a 3rd.
This is one of these problems that seems to be a technical one but is
really a political one. I'm not going to give up my burgers and fries
and Frosted Flakes and go on a veegan diet, unless you get the rest
of the country to do it. And everyone else in the country has the
same attitude. Even though if we all did, we would probably all
not be such lard-*****, would probably be a lot healthier, and it
would not require nearly as much farmland to feed us.
Ted
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