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Switch to organic farming causes chaos in Sri Lanka
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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 7737094" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>Yes stuff grew before but it was when a very high proportion of a much much smaller population worked on the land and yields were a tiny fraction of today's yields per acre while also being less reliable. What I mean by 'less reliable' is that some years the crops would be devastated by pests or diseases or fungal infections which would either result in insufficient crop for even the relatively tiny population, and/or the crops not surviving storage over Winter, either rotting away or going mouldy and, if eaten in desperation, would be poisonous. Ergo poisoning was thought to be responsible for mass hysteria in the Middle Ages across Europe. Think of potato blight and crop failures such as starved Ireland in relatively recent times, causing not only mass starvation but massive migration of desperate people.</p><p></p><p>The past was by far the worst. Modern agriculture moving away from near organic was not an accident. It was for very good reasons. For consistent and higher yields of superior quality at a lower affordable price.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 7737094, member: 718"] Yes stuff grew before but it was when a very high proportion of a much much smaller population worked on the land and yields were a tiny fraction of today's yields per acre while also being less reliable. What I mean by 'less reliable' is that some years the crops would be devastated by pests or diseases or fungal infections which would either result in insufficient crop for even the relatively tiny population, and/or the crops not surviving storage over Winter, either rotting away or going mouldy and, if eaten in desperation, would be poisonous. Ergo poisoning was thought to be responsible for mass hysteria in the Middle Ages across Europe. Think of potato blight and crop failures such as starved Ireland in relatively recent times, causing not only mass starvation but massive migration of desperate people. The past was by far the worst. Modern agriculture moving away from near organic was not an accident. It was for very good reasons. For consistent and higher yields of superior quality at a lower affordable price. [/QUOTE]
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