Your Questions About Green Living

The Expert answers:

I’m a small farmer on a permaculture farm (for over 20 years). So your “source” is me….your getting your information strait from the farmers mouth.

GM food pros: It lines the pockets of huge agribusiness companies like Monsanto, Dow, ect. They make titanic profits, in their quest to control the worlds food supply.

GM food cons: It lines the pockets of hugs agribusiness companies like Monsanto, Dow, ConAgra, ect. They make titanic profits, in their quest to control the worlds food supply.

Not a SINGLE GM food is tested before being released to be put in the human food supply. No kidding, not a single one. They are released by the FDA. The general human public of the world are the lab rats of these companies.

So if you are allergic to something, like say fish, you have zero idea if they have snuck fish genes into your tomatoes, or strawberries.

Perhaps you have religious (or moral) reasons why you cannot eat rodents (specifically mice). Do you know which vegtable crops you will find mice genes in? (I do)

These mega agribusiness companies have turned farmers into serfs on their own land, in the quest to do things ever cheaper.

These GM crops are helping to create supper weeds, and supper bugs.
The only thing that kills the weeds is to hack them out by hand, or to have goats graze on them several years in a row.

The only thing that kills the supper bugs (insects) are chickens and ducks if they are the ground dwelling kind of bugs. If they are the flying type farmers are just S.O.L.

GM foods are NOT sustainable. Not at all. They are going to fail, and fail spectacuarly!

The European union has very wisely decided not to allow GM foods. The countries that are setting themselves up for famine where people are actually starving to death in the streets are:

The U.S.A.
Canada
South America
Australia
Africa

Think about what will happen if the corn, wheat, or soy bean crops fail in those five countries all at the same time. Think it cannot happen all at once? Your kidding yourself. Disease in crops can travel the globe as fast as the flu does.

GM crops will NOT deliver the better nutrition, yeild, vitamins, ect that the mega agribusiness companies state they will. They will ONLY provide a way to further enslave (through debt) farmers. They will ONLY produce crops which are quick to line their pockets….not actually be good for the world at large.

~Garnet
Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

The Expert answers:

It depends on where each ingredient is grown relative to where you’re eating it. The most environmentally sustainable choice is to eat that which is grown closest to where you’re consuming it.

The Expert answers:

Regarding the potato scenario above:
The average yield of Irish potatoes in the US is about 380 hundred weight per acre.
So your trashcan of potatoes will yield 19,000 pounds of potatoes?

Nice!

Generally speaking, the limiting factor of vertical farming is photosynthesis. Sooner or later you run out of sunlight when you go vertical.

The Expert answers:

Peanut Butter crackers, or sandwich, peanut butter and banana sandwich, protein and fruit there, no sticky jelly to deal with, or use preserves such as strawberry and peanut butter but bring along the wet wipes or hand sanitizer which you should anyway. Rice cakes come in many flavors and beat chips, small bite size ones are great for toddlers,You can usually find a variety of fruit already cut and ready to eat, like cantaloupe, grapes, watermelon, strawberries, etc. Or make your own w/ several fruits mixed together. We took the little cans of food that come in a microwaveable container (along with disposable dinnerware) that can be eaten right from the can or stop and most places will let you use their microwave for your child. There are many varieties like Chef Boy R Dee spaghetti, chicken and dumplings, beef stew, etc. Read the label for fat content etc… Some are better than others.Milk of course and fruit juices, those w/ the straws are great. Take a container of water to rinse the milk cup out, a roll of paper towels and hand sanitizer for sticky fingers. You know what your child likes and what can easily be put in a small cooler. Good luck!

The Expert answers:

The less food wasted, the less food needs to be produced; thus saving the environment which can be left in its pristine state.
Less food production also saves on labour, processing, cartage, storage etc. All of these activities impinge on the environment