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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="bitwrx" data-source="post: 5373282" data-attributes="member: 86972"><p>Amen to that brother.</p><p></p><p>As someone who considers themself a rational being - who grew up on a farm of the '90s, run by a farmer trained in all the best techniques of the green revolution - I'm really having my preconceptions challenged by all this stuff.</p><p></p><p>These are all very attractive ideas (in the same way other people want to believe GM will lead to magically increased yields, for example), but it really is a leap of faith to believe them. Because we're only human, we can only test for very simple relationships between cause and effect. Nothing is as simple as that, and our simplistic approach (is this what [USER=63856]@Kiwi Pete[/USER] means by reductionist?) masks the inherent complexity.</p><p></p><p>I look at videos like these and still struggle not to think 'crackpot' or 'cynical manipulator of people's insecurities'. But then it is an attractive notion - that one wonder chemical is the root cause of all society's ills, and agriculture was great before we started using it, and everyone was happy and healthy and lived longer.</p><p></p><p>I was having dinner with some mates the other day, and started telling them about soil degradation and the way agriculture has developed over the last 70 years, and realised I sounded like a conspiracy theorist. Corporations this, treadmill that. I was taken aback at myself.</p><p></p><p>I've never been a believer in anything before that I can't 'prove', but I think I might be seriously considering acting on a hunch.</p><p></p><p>(Four only tangentially related thoughts there. They say if you can't write it down clearly, you don't understand it. Clearly I don't understand my own views on agriculture any more.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bitwrx, post: 5373282, member: 86972"] Amen to that brother. As someone who considers themself a rational being - who grew up on a farm of the '90s, run by a farmer trained in all the best techniques of the green revolution - I'm really having my preconceptions challenged by all this stuff. These are all very attractive ideas (in the same way other people want to believe GM will lead to magically increased yields, for example), but it really is a leap of faith to believe them. Because we're only human, we can only test for very simple relationships between cause and effect. Nothing is as simple as that, and our simplistic approach (is this what [USER=63856]@Kiwi Pete[/USER] means by reductionist?) masks the inherent complexity. I look at videos like these and still struggle not to think 'crackpot' or 'cynical manipulator of people's insecurities'. But then it is an attractive notion - that one wonder chemical is the root cause of all society's ills, and agriculture was great before we started using it, and everyone was happy and healthy and lived longer. I was having dinner with some mates the other day, and started telling them about soil degradation and the way agriculture has developed over the last 70 years, and realised I sounded like a conspiracy theorist. Corporations this, treadmill that. I was taken aback at myself. I've never been a believer in anything before that I can't 'prove', but I think I might be seriously considering acting on a hunch. (Four only tangentially related thoughts there. They say if you can't write it down clearly, you don't understand it. Clearly I don't understand my own views on agriculture any more.) [/QUOTE]
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