VVH-TV News Special
Organic Farming: Can It Feed Us? Part 1
Karl Grossman Chief Investigative Reporter examines Organic Farming on Eastern Long Island.
What is organic farming?
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VVH-TV News Special Organic Farming: Can It Feed Us? Part 1
Karl Grossman Chief Investigative Reporter examines Organic Farming on Eastern Long Island.
What is organic farming? Organic farming can be defined as an approach to agriculture where the aim is to create integrated, humane, environmentally and economically sustainable agricultural production systems. Maximum reliance is placed on locally or farm-derived renewable resources and the management of self-regulating ecological and biological processes and interactions in order to provide acceptable levels of crop, livestock and human nutrition, protection from pests and diseases, and an appropriate return to the human and other resources employed. Reliance on external inputs, whether chemical or organic, is reduced as far as possible. In many European countries, organic agriculture is known as ecological agriculture, reflecting this reliance on ecosystem management rather than external inputs.
The objective of sustainability lies at the heart of organic farming and is one of the major factors determining the acceptability or otherwise of specific production practices. The term 'sustainable' is used in its widest sense, to encompass not just conservation of non-renewable resources (soil, energy, minerals) but also issues of environmental, economic and social sustainability. The term 'organic' is best thought of as referring to the concept of the farm as an organism, in which all the component parts - the soil minerals, organic matter, micro-organisms, insects, plants, animals and humans - interact to create a coherent and stable whole.
The key characteristics of organic farming include:
protecting the long term fertility of soils by maintaining organic matter levels, encouraging soil biological activity, and careful mechanical intervention;
providing crop nutrients indirectly using relatively insoluble nutrient sources which are made available to the plant by the action of soil micro-organisms;
nitrogen self-sufficiency through the use of legumes and biological nitrogen fixation, as well as effective recycling of organic materials including crop residues and livestock manures;
weed, disease and pest control relying primarily on crop rotations, natural predators, diversity, organic manuring, resistant varieties and limited (preferably minimal) thermal, biological and chemical intervention;
the extensive management of livestock, paying full regard to their evolutionary adaptations, behavioural needs and animal welfare issues with respect to nutrition, housing, health, breeding and rearing;
careful attention to the impact of the farming system on the wider environment and the conservation of wildlife and natural habitats.
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there is a naturally occuring fungus that gets in the soil. it forms a symbiotic life form with the plant and others of its species and other plant species and then the plants can trade with eachother for the nutrients they need. this cannot happen with petroleum fertilizers. worms change the soil eventually you dont need to plow, use less water and they prevent certain disease and nemotoads in their gut turn rock into organic soil.
if you wanna sacrafice people for your god of death then say so dont blame the planet.
colonize planet kansas theres noone out there i know ive been there
colonize the big bend area of texas, alaska, america's north west, there are places in america where no human has ever set foot.
there are places in the amazon where no human has ever returned from. the river is 3,903 miles long and in places 7 miles wide. during the dry season. 24 in rainy
i love these people, eco-revolution is almost in full swing now peoples ^_^ vote with your dollars is the most profound message. please question your motives when you purchase anything
if humanity is such a virus....so freaking horrible, then start a trend and kill your self.
I am being very fucking serious. So which 80% of the population should die? The Old? The mentally ill? People in Poor Nations? Or maybe the people in the nations who take up the most resources...Which would be in the U.S. Where you live. So who are willing to sacrifice in the name of the environment? Which of your family/friends should be included in this 80%!
Theres no need for culling humans, although i do think we need to ask the families with excess of 6 children to stop unless they are living self sustainabily.
Over-population puts pressure on us to act fast and change the way we exist on earth but, it also has the benefit of providing us with many hands to make light work.
organic food is the best i buy my food in flabush coop or wholefood i whish they will have more stores through out the city to all the farmers keep up the good work i know many people they prefer organic today.. we need you good farmers!
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worms change the soil eventually you dont need to plow, use less water and they prevent certain disease and nemotoads in their gut turn rock into organic soil.
colonize planet kansas theres noone out there i know ive been there
colonize the big bend area of texas, alaska, america's north west, there are places in america where no human has ever set foot.
there are places in the amazon where no human has ever returned from. the river is 3,903 miles long and in places 7 miles wide. during the dry season. 24 in rainy
I am being very fucking serious.
So which 80% of the population should die? The Old? The mentally ill? People in Poor Nations? Or maybe the people in the nations who take up the most resources...Which would be in the U.S. Where you live. So who are willing to sacrifice in the name of the environment? Which of your family/friends should be included in this 80%!
Over-population puts pressure on us to act fast and change the way we exist on earth but, it also has the benefit of providing us with many hands to make light work.
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