Jerry Brunetti 10-24-09 02of20

[Awaitingcertainty]

"Runoff...We have destroyed 90% of our estuaries in the United States...New Orleans...dead zone the state of CT: 8,000 sq. miles" - if you watch the documentary "King Corn" and its sequel, "Big River" you'll see this is so...

[Awaitingcertainty]

"We don't HAVE a heatlh care system. We have a disease management system based on patented drugs which are incredibly expensive and replete with side effects. That is an agricultural issue...Type II diabetes..Corn is the Big Kahuna of the 5 main types of food we consume in the US...Run amuck food libel laws (audience laughs, but watch Food, Inc.) if I "diss" Florida tomatoes..."

[Jefferdaughter]

Well, one could say that the roots of industrial agricuture began with the industrial revolution, excellerating after WWI...

Not all farmers practiced sustainable ag before then, and some did after that time frame. A few never stopped.

[Jefferdaughter]

So-called 'conventional' agriculture was invented after WWII as a market for war indyustry, including toxic chemical warfare agents relabelled as pesticides & herbicides.  It is more accurately called chemical/ industrial agriculture - which has ignored the growing of food plants and animals as part of a complex bilogical system.