The Seven Myths of Agriculture

This video covers the seven deadly myths of industrial agriculture as described in the book, "A Fatal Harvest. The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture".

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• agriculture
• environment
• farming
• industrial
• biodiversity
• monoculture

[soddcutter]

@10hmf Have you read any of the reader that this short video is based on or done any of your own reading.

[10hmf]

I am a dairy farmer. I have a small farm and I am not a fan of large industrial farms but there are so many things wrong with this video that i don't even know where to start.

[JimmyeDallas]

Farming has become a collectivized industry dominated by a few massive corporations and barons. "Farmers" who own land, and work it at the same time hardly exist anymore in North America. Farming has become an industry like any other, and industry, has turned food and land into just another traded commodity, and redefined life as intellectual property. The alienation of labor is alive and more manifest then ever before.

If this continues at this rate, modern medicine will not be able to keep up

[Nike6bt4bt]

@skyler8perkins Farmers are very much in touch with the land. They are constantly monitoring soil conditions, Hydration, and etc, to ensure they have a sufficient yield from the plot. Farmers always have the ecosystem in mind dont they? If they neglected the system, like you say, of course it will not be sustainable. Im not against small individual plots, my concern is that they will not be able to provide the world with food at a rate industrial farming can.

[skyler8perkins]

@skyler8perkins enrich soil, instead of deplete

[skyler8perkins]

@Nike6bt4bt Looking at the problem in economic terms: lower prices, get jobs. Look at the problem in ecological terms: maximize our eco-system in a way that will provide a healthy base for our future. Unfortunately our current economic model doesn't believe in ecological constraints. The economic model creates more dependents and poor and a concentration of wealth- good reason for food to be cheap. I don't understand why you're against small individual plots, in praires, other farm systems

[Nike6bt4bt]

@skyler8perkins So what is your suggestion? employ tens thousands of workers to run their own 4 acre plot? Also, how is it less productive? I agree you may be able to get a higher yield out of a small scale operation over a large scale, but to produce the same "quantity" as large scale farming does would be too costly. How else are we to farm places like the prairies...in small individual plots? becuase the average farm in western Canada is close to 25,000acres...

[skyler8perkins]

@Nike6bt4bt ::: actually large scale agriculture is largely responsible for food insecurity, as we've displaced workers around the world. ++ large scale ag. is usually 20-60% less productive in terms of yeild than small scale agroforestry.

[Nike6bt4bt]

I mean no dissrespect to the makers of the video. But this is a joke. Make sure you know all the repurrussions of a proccess before you denounce it. Also, you say that spraying chemicals on the fields ruins them and kills plant...? sorry, bud arent farms concsious of that and thats why they use them? to get rid of weeds and unwanted psts that would cut the production?

regards

[Nike6bt4bt]

Show me HOW in the hell the world would be feed without large scale farming? Yes i kno it said most hunger is from poverty...but what if "industrial" farming dissapeared? ALL of North America and the rest of the world would feel the impacts!