The elephant in the room is meat

We so often read that as incomes increase in developing countries, so too does the demand for meat. It seems as people have more disposable income, so do their meat purchases increases.I sometimes try to wonder why. If one looks at the so-called lifestyle diseases, diseases of affluence, in the developed world, it often has … Continue reading The elephant in the room is meat →

Agroecology vs Industrial agriculture

Perhaps our excessive reliance on biotechnology and GM crops stems from not fully understanding nature and how to work with nature to good effect. In the developed world we rely on industrial agriculture models which incorporate biotech, models that rely on carbon-intensive off-farm inputs and produce water pollution, negated ecosystem and human health, and biological … Continue reading Agroecology vs Industrial agriculture →

some ideas on how we create sustainable society, part 3: ecosystems and agriculture

Regarding plants, animals and biodiversity, what one could term natural communities, there seems to be this play-off between conservationists, and human development and resource use. Human development is an easy one to understand and justify, but resource use does not justify turning rainforest into palm oil plantations, soy and cattle enterprises - when all these … Continue reading some ideas on how we create sustainable society, part 3: ecosystems and agriculture →