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Featured Comment: February 6, 2010
Ford reminds us that, if you’re going to feed the world, there’s more to animals than meat and milk:
There are some other potential benefits to using animals, despite their intrinsic inefficiency. They can buffer food supply: build up herds in good years, eat them (and any grain they would have eaten) when crops fail. See “Future Harvest: pesticide-free farming” (or similar title) for other benefits: growing more soil-conserving forages becomes more economic, graze weedy fields rather than building up weed seed bank, etc.
That title? Future Harvest: Pesticide-free Farming (Our Sustainable Future).
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Fantastic. A real communicator in action. An excellent exercise of rhetoric (in the best sense). A talk of 17′10” and only 11 slides and an audience completed “glued” in the words. The message will pass on …
Great talk.
It’s a wonderful talk, very well argued. I met Cary in Stockholm a long time ago. He and Roy Pat Mooney are the heros of our time, in a very humble and unassuming way.