We desperately need to start talking about how our food is produced. Killing off all nature, everywhere, is not only far too high a price, it's also totally unnecessary. We actually CAN eat and still have abundant wild nature. - ThreadSky

irishrainforest.bsky.social • 5 days ago

We desperately need to start talking about how our food is produced. Killing off all nature, everywhere, is not only far too high a price, it's also totally unnecessary.

We actually CAN eat and still have abundant wild nature.

Reposted from Pádraic Fogarty

Europe's greatest conservation comeback is now under threat from the far right and their farmer allies

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evacalleja.bsky.social•5 days ago

Until we rewild ourselves first, it's going to be almost impossible to rewild our environment...

notesofland.bsky.social•5 days ago

I find it unconscionable that farmers grow food that is poisoning the Earth and their neighbors. As a farmer I strive to provide healthy, nutritious, toxic free food to my community. The system has pushed farmers into a corner of desperation where to survive they think they need to destroy nature.

genxsour.bsky.social•5 days ago

I was quite excited about trying the edible insect option but here, in Australia, the majority of the population is all squeamish about it so it hasn't taken off. Of course, the majority thinks that their food comes ready shrink wrapped from the field and abattoir too so education is a big issue.

dleeca.bsky.social•5 days ago

screw the hunters, like Eric & Don Jr

irishrainforest.bsky.social•5 days ago

And the key, of course, is moving to a more plant-based diet, which requires only a fraction of the amount of land.

It's also *far* better for our health, and from an ethical (animal welfare) perspective.

sarmcs.bsky.social•5 days ago

My children have grown up not really knowing about seasonal availability and I was younger than them when it started to disappear. We now expect everything, all the time and in abundance & we are actively blind and deaf to how this is achieved.

petergarbutt.bsky.social•5 days ago

In fact, in the end, it's the ONLY way we'll be able to keep on growing our food!

sustainablefarming.bsky.social•5 days ago

Exactly.

And it goes even further - humans have never in history farmed without an intact functioning ecosystem.

It is a very bold assumption to assume farming can still be viable when our ecosystem collapses. How many vital organisms depend on all the predators? We don’t know.

sustainablefarming.bsky.social•5 days ago

“Soil degradation” is just a euphemism for “we added so many man-made chemicals and plastic and killed off so many organisms and strangely the soil is no longer productive for farming, what could it be?!”

thecrisses.bsky.social•5 days ago

Also monocrops… how many years can you grow GMO soybeans on the same soil?

jayhawk11.bsky.social•4 days ago

Try new synthetic soil by DuPont!

sustainablefarming.bsky.social•4 days ago

That might be a joke but it is very close to reality!

stevedudley.bsky.social•5 days ago

Farming methods also need to change to maintain soils. Until recently I lived out in the arable Fens surrounded by intensive arable practices. They hit clay on my home fen about eight years ago. The peat is fast disappearing yet little effort, e.g. no till methods, is being made to preserve it.

sustainablefarming.bsky.social•5 days ago

Indeed. The amount of ecological destruction caused by “tilling the soil” is atrocious. “Tilling the soil” should be referred to as “mass destruction of life on earth”.

sustainablefarming.bsky.social•5 days ago

Tilling the soil is the land-based equivalent of bottom trawling the oceans and seas.

stevedudley.bsky.social•5 days ago

Definitely. Too many people think it’s simply about what we put into our soils and to less extent (but thankfully increasing) the run off that leaches into our waterways. All these facets of soil destruction have been ignored or treated individually when the whole thing needs to be treated as one.

climatenews.bsky.social•5 days ago

Human societies are doing the exact same with our climate.

Our atmosphere and our oceans are treated like open sewage systems to dump anything into.

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