Louise Fresco on feeding the whole world

http://www.ted.com Louise Fresco argues that a smart approach to large-scale, industrial farming and food production will feed our planet's incoming population of nine billion. Only foods like (the scorned) supermarket white bread, she says, will nourish on a global scale.

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[resourcebasedeconomY]

If you want to feed the whole world, see:

The Venus Project. com

Jacque Fresco ideology with logical concepts, study it.

[witalian1]

You are completly missing the point.

[crudhousefull]

I've been to a village in Bangladesh where people farm their own food and live close to nature. They think that people who live in the city are completely crazy for giving up the good life. I was there for two weeks. Life really is good. Only great thing about technology is pharmaceuticals/surgery. Let's not forget tech's toll on spiritual development. Look at all the TEDsters slapping their hands together and bowing in Hindu style, many already know this

[Antilli]

We don't lack amount of food, we lack coordination.. Watch this:

watch?v=jA1m2aKkqdQ

[socratiz]

@oreolvrs

@oreolvrs

hahaha. Your funny. your associating Ego with a movement of awareness? Last time I checked ego was a human characteristic not a symptom of Cults. Maybe you can explain what you feel is wrong or flawed about the actual Resource Based Economy Design?

Or else, your a waste of our time.

[socratiz]

@oreolvrs

hahaha. Your funny. your associating Ego with a movement of awareness? Last time I checked ego was a human characteristic not a symptom of Cults. Maybe you can explain what you feel is wrong or flawed about the actual Resource Based Economy Design?

[socratiz]

@StuartIsCheese

I think your coming from a perspective lacking education.

Simple proof:

youtube:

"watch?v=oCcmKhqRB_w&feature=p­layer_embedded"

"watch?v=KTtmU2lD97o"

Enjoy brother

[Gameboob]

@johan28 Yea, it's a fact that we're using grains on feedlot animals and they need lots of water and antibiotics and their manure needs to be disposed of. But the solution isn't to stop consuming meat or dairy. We need to stop producing meat through factory farm methods. I'm not bothered by reducing the population of humans, or the increased cost of eating healthy foods. Plus this way is substantially more ethical, small farms are far more humane towards their animals.

[johan28]

We really have not grown out of the slavery mentality. After slaves, it's illegal immigrants. It's inhumane slaughterhouses. It's runoff. It's coal power emissions. It's an oil spill. It's poor, pesticide rich food. It's increased cost of living. All of these things are examples of us exploiting the weak or the unknowing. It may not be a black man toiling in the fields. but if you look hard, the resemblance is uncanny and unmistakable. The conclusion is that slavery exists all around us.

[johan28]

Gameboob: There is one ethical alternative that I failed to mention. That's... meat/diary grown from replicating cell cultures on an industrial scale. This is already done, but it's like jello and doesn't taste that great (labs do it). This would only require tissue samples from live animals and from there it could be grown artifically without the need to harm any animals or pollute rivers with waste or deplete topsoil. With public acceptance it could grow to meet the needs of the world.

[johan28]

@Gameboob It's a fact. When you talk about feeding as many people as the slaughterhouse industry is feeding, it's virtually impossible to do it any other way then the way they're doing it now. If you want to have a respectable industry that is humane towards animals then either the price must go up dramatically or people will have to refrain from eating as much diary and meat as they're now. There's no other way, sir. I'm sorry. No ethical way, but since when were we ethical?