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EFTA00721040 | EFTA00721043 No species has deliberately designed its own extinction but through industrial agriculture we are. It is in the design of industrial agriculture because it first's creed is to place profits over product and as a result it is destroying the base of farming, ecological systems, as well as not being a productive and efficient use of resources. Industrial agriculture uses 10 units of energy to produce 1 unit of food, whereas ecological systems use 1 unit of food to produce 2 units of food. The mainstay of food security is and should be small farms and urban gardens. Food can only be cared for on a small scale. Food can only be cared for in decentralized systems. The centralized system of production and with that centralizing, the centralized system of distribution by its very necessity means waste. There is no waste in living systems. There is no waste in ecological farming systems. There is no waste in local food systems. I grow many crops all of them are used, some for the soil, some for the cow. In India nothing gets wasted because the cow is always waiting. Or the earthworms are waiting. It only becomes waste when aid sent long distances and stored in centralized systems as in the large store houses/silos in the Punjab. Or if it is taken by Walmart. Because Walmart will throwaway half because the apples aren't exactly the right size. A South African told me that overnight they had to change the trees, variety of their apples because Walmart changed the size of their trucks. And as you know that 'flavor savor"was designed for transport not for eating as so much food is now. Breeding today is for trucks not for human beings. How long can it sit on a truck? Then it has to be the identical size. That is why they didn't like the round tomatoes and Berkeley had a whole study on tomatoes for packaging and transport. Farmers should grow as much diverse crops possible and people should eat as much diverse foods as they can. And when told that organic is too costly Dr. Vandana Shiva says "notfor thefarmer who grew it as they have thefirst right to organicfood." And when you measure, not the mono culture which is yield, the yield per acre, which is repeatedly talked about because the yield is a single commodity that leaves the farm. So the grain of wheat is measured as yield but not the straw that should stay on the farm. The corn is measured as yield, but not the straw of corn. So what should be recycled to the farm is treated as waste and isn't allowed to return to the soil. As a result the mono culture is harvested by combine harvesters, which leave a huge stalk which they farmers have to burn. As a result a bio-diverse farm produces more across the board. Also when you have diverse farming at least one of the crops will thrive/survive nature's challenges. Whereas, when you have only one crop with external input and the perfect requirement of water, two little rain, too much means disaster for everything. Also in the end what matters is now how much we eat but the nutritional content in the food that we eat. And our food has been systemically de-nutritionaified because of the application of nitrogen phosphate potassium and no other micro-nutrients and trace elements are going into the soil, our plants are deprived, our food is deprived and therefore we are deprived of potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron and zinc. We forget that our plants need zinc, soils need zinc and humans need zinc. Our current system is wiping out nutrition. First by wiping out biodiversity. Then by depleting the soil, plants and foods of their nutrients. And the focus of yield, yield, yield of single commodities, is creating huge deficiencies. If there are no greens in the fields, and pesticides like Round-Up kills everything green, our kids will have vitamin deficiencies. So the obvious solution is grow the greens again. We know the different foods that will provide the needed nutrients. We have to change our current farming system. We have to work for greater biodiversity to produce more food and nutrition using up less of the earth's resources — a smaller foot print and a higher EFTA00721043
May 5, 2026 at 5:14 PM