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androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
History of industrial agriculture: <1940s: scarce but nourishing food ~1950-1990: abundant and nourishing food (depletion period) ~1990-present: abundant but depleted food Next phase will have supply shocks of depleted food The best move is to rotate back into nourishing foods by going local
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Jawa
@jawa
The depleted argument is over stated. We have traded some nutritional benefit for better shelf life & ability to pack the fruit. Does it matter that much if an orange has 50mg of Vitamin C instead of 60mg if you have much better access to fresh fruit ? Not in my mind. Between 1995 & 2006 I watched strawberries in the Northeast go from small & heavily damaged fruit that barely looked edible to larger & appetizing. They’re not as sweet, but the can get to your fridge before looking like mush. There are lots of trade-offs in ag
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Royal
@royalaid.eth
Additionally the eco impacts of concentrated farming are much smaller than distributed farms because they benefit a lot from the scale. Both organic farming and local farming result in more damage to the environment iirc.
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matt 💭
@matthewmorek
This is understated. It’s the number one reason we have a rapidly declining food poverty in the entire world. If you want to see what happens when you remove modern agricultural tools, just look up Sri Lanka from 2021 onwards, and the disaster they created under the premise of going “organic” by banning chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Food prices skyrocketed, production nose dived, and they went from being exporters of rice and tea to a net importer of food in a matter of a single season. Here’s a more nuanced take on this: https://humanprogress.org/sri-lanka-is-a-wake-up-call-for-eco-utopians/
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