★ Why Are Vast Fields Turning Against the Very Farmers Who Feed Us?
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Why Are Vast Fields Turning Against the Very Farmers Who Feed Us?
A silent collapse is happening underfoot - one that can't be stopped with fertilizer or technology, and may be tied to a forgotten force most have never seen, touched, or even considered.
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Evidence shows that the main moral and economic claims justifying the global market are very big lies that keep getting bigger. The tirelessly proclaimed doctrine that the global market brings "more wealth for all" is, in fact, irreproachable commercial evidence shows the opposite reality on the ground and around the world. It is undeniable that the poor have lost almost half of their share of the world's wealth, while the richest have multiplied theirs at the same time. Global competition means, in fact, that the livelihoods and security of the majority continue to decline as the environment is plundered and polluted on ever-increasing scales of depredation.
Livestock farming and small-scale agriculture are seriously threatened. The destruction of soils by intensive agriculture reaches the point where intensive agricultural soils have the lowest carbon content. Industrial agriculture uses monocultures, synthetic overfertilization, intensive tillage, separates agriculture and livestock, disrupts agroecological cycles, and uses polluting energy sources—all the opposite of organic agriculture. Soil degradation is devastating to the ecosystem; nearly half of chemically degraded soils are depleted and devoid of organic matter.
Monoculture works against the ecological cycle of farmland. Regenerative Agriculture actively works in harmony with nature. Regenerative practices such as no-till farming, composting, cover crops, crop rotation, organic crops, and controlled grazing can help mitigate the negative impacts of monoculture.
The land must be regenerated in a symbiosis between agriculture and livestock. We cannot allow cross-pollination, where pollen from new varieties can reach natural plants and modify their genetics. In addition to cross-pollination during cultivation, there are many other stages of the food chain where contamination from genetically modified organisms can occur, from grain transportation and storage to processing.
Industrial agriculture is degenerating farmland. For example, Bt corn plant residues after turning the soil after harvest inhibit its ability to respire (produce carbon dioxide), also reduce mycorrhizal colonization, and seriously alter bacterial populations within the soil ecosystem. This soil function is vitally important for regulating plant growth and vitality and increasing the availability of minerals and nutrients.
Regenerative farming coupled with regenerative livestock farming is a true incentive for the goal of truly holistic, chemical-free "regenerative organic" agriculture, which must take a more holistic approach that also encompasses the well-being of farmers and animals, a process to which Rodale, Steiner, Holmgren, etc., pioneers of the regenerative organic movement, contributed.
What Mother Nature has done for 10,000 years in agriculture, and modification by laboratory design are not the same thing. It is to ignore human agricultural culture, developed by millions of peasants in thousands of different biogeographic and climatic situations, which has respected natural mechanisms over all that time, selecting new varieties from populations originating through crossbreeding until the appropriate phenotype is found and stabilized. These processes of adaptation and adjustment of crop characteristics carried out by agrarian communities over the years also permanently test their impacts on human health and the environments where the new varieties are generated. Let us fight for the survival of Mother Nature.
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