Maria asks…
How can you make food more sustainable?
The Expert answers:
“Eat less, save money, loose weight!” — Saturday Night Live
I have chickens. We found a place for free grain (beer brewery in my town).. Smells like beer (bleg) but the animals love it. My chickens also get all the table scraps, plate scrappings, all bones and meat scraps… Weeds from my garden, grass clippings when I mow. They get them in their pen and about every 3 days I rake out what they don’t eat and put that in the compost bin… That earthworms grow in.. That the chickens eat too. My 30 chickens eat a bag of regular chicken feed once every 2 months. $17 for feed for two months and I have extra eggs to sell and make more than that back on. The chickens don’t even eat all the grain between days we get it.. We could easily grow a couple pigs off of it too. Before we found it the brewery saw most of their used grain go to the dump.
There should be restaurants around a person could buy all the leftover food from and do the same thing. We throw away so much food in our country.. It’s just sad.
Going a bit overboard, IMO, there is a Japanese Scientist who is separating protein from sewage sludge and making it into a ‘synthetic beef’. I saw the article on Fox News.. Http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/japanese-scientists-create-meat-from-poop/
Now, maybe the proteins could be separated and put into an animal feed.. I think that would be more reasonable.
Lisa asks…
Is Drinking Coffee a Sustainable Food Source?
The Expert answers:
Only on the Sims.
James asks…
Can vertical farming provide sustainable food alternatives to communities today? http://blog.valcent.net?
Vertical farming maximizes land usage and uses only 5% of water consumption that traditional farming uses. Vertical farming crops for secure, cost effective & safe local foods may be an independent sustainable solution for developing countries. Caroline Keddy http://blog.valcent.net, www.valcent.net
The Expert answers:
Yes. It is a promising future for food development. As the world population continues to explode it will be absolutely necessary to Develop these types of crops.
Laura asks…
A sustainable future in relation to food.?
Discuss values and associated behaviours in relation to a sustainable future, in relation to sustainable food.
That is the question I am being asked to write an essay on? I am really unsure about what I can include and anything would help!
So this is what is required of me: Has written or spoken on each value, explaining how that value supports a sustainable future, and provides in depth examples from the readings and interviews of the behaviours that arise as a consequence of one value and thenon how a value supports a sustainable future, with detailed examples from the readings and interview of the behaviours that arise as a consequence. The discussion includes justifying decisions, making judgements, stating opinions, considering implications, projecting future impacts, evaluating options, comparing and contrasting, analysing or suggesting alternatives, where appropriate.
Any links or your own thoughts would be very useful!
The Expert answers:
Food should be processed and distributed in ways that does not contribute to wanton waste, and excessive use of resources.
See the “McDonaldization of America”
Ken asks…
Will the food resources on planet Earth be sustainable for the population?
What’s the prediction for the future in the year 2222?
Also can you give evidence as to why you think that? Any other information about it would be much appretiated.
Lisa.Rr x
The Expert answers:
I think yes, there could be enough food for the population in 2222, and the emphasis is on the word “could.” However, nobody knows if there actually will be enough – it all depends on how farsighted humans will be with regard to many other challenges that are poised to wipe us out before 2222. We’ll have to put aside self-interest and start doing what’s good for the world. Such things as stopping or reversing population growth, ending wars, respecting the sovereignty of other nations and taking care of the planet are obvious goals, but achieving them may depend heavily on whether we can shed our hang-ups and start being kind to one another. Pres. Obama is off to a good start.
The reason we have to be kind to one another is that it is the only way to get people to cooperate. It’s contrary to our nature, which is left over from when we depended on bluster and deception for survival. But we could free up lots of resources if we could make progress in this area. And we might even get people more personally involved in population control.
There are organizations that are trying to do something about the population explosion. PCI Media Impact is one of them – they produce TV soap opera programming in third world countries that deals with birth control and sexual attitudes.
I think humanity will succeed in reaching 2222. We evolved this far, and we should have no trouble tackling new problems. Science is developing more productive food crop varieties. We’re going about climate change better than I ever dreamed we would.
When 2222 rolls around, I imagine I’ll be relaxing on the front porch munching on a Soylent Green wafer and thinking of new ways to be kind to the new neighbors.
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