Eric Bjerregaard
Jul 27, 2017 · 2 min read

I can’t see the original story. Thus am unable to point out the errors in the bunk sources you posted. No till couldn’t be done by primitive agriculture on purpose. They had no equipment to till with. Crap analogy, especially since one of the results was famines. I don’t need a primary source to counter your likely misleading one. Simple math shows that every time a new variety is developed. Diversity goes up. Are obsolete varieties deleted from catalogs. Yep, if you dislike that buy obsolete ones or save the seeds your self. Just like the heirloom places that aren’t quite smart enough to understand that these heirlooms were once the latest and replaced even older types. Perennial oriented permaculture. Only good for niche sales. This won’t work to feed billions. It is difficult to use combines on perennial grains that don’t exist yet. Large scale permaculture is still speculative and is not feeding a lot of folks. Plus they often ignore the reality that they must replace the minerals sent to cities. Mineralization and crops wastes will not do this. Poisoning? complete bunk. The agrochemicals we use are waaaay safer than the ones I survived as a baby boomer. We feed billions with very few issues with “poisoning” Most food related sicknesses are due to microbes. Not modern technology. Although there are isolated accidents. the simple fact is that the math outweighs any bogus claims your “”sources”” may have made. Try taking the number of items per meal times 3 meals a day, time the number of folks in a country and then multiply times the population. In the U.S. about 360 million. A staggering number of opportunities for problems compared to the few reports of food related illness. If you were referring to poisoning the environment. Your sources are out of date. Where modern no till is used. This happens. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/newsroom/features/?cid=nrcseprd1307111 Allow your article to be viewed and I will do a better job of showing your errors. BTw those improvement will include enhanced and disease resistant GE crops to carry further the success of the Hawaiian papayas.

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