tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531617304191579626.post3571901957983298597..comments2023-09-23T06:23:22.682-06:00Comments on Advocates for Agriculture: Showing Their CommittmentTroy Hadrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17729642328778709521noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531617304191579626.post-67415252312405630052010-01-01T14:01:07.500-07:002010-01-01T14:01:07.500-07:00So your version of a "better" agricultur...So your version of a "better" agriculture is one that is less efficient and uses more natural resources like water and soil to produce less product?? Efficiency isn't achieved by using short-cuts. Taking short-cuts in animal agriculture translates into unhealthy, uncomfortable livestock. Which in turn puts a family farm out of business.Troy Hadrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17729642328778709521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531617304191579626.post-46026163693878452212010-01-01T12:48:26.210-07:002010-01-01T12:48:26.210-07:00When I hear the words "efficient operation,&q...When I hear the words "efficient operation," I want to reach for my revolver. Translated, this means short-cuts are being taken to squeeze more dollars out of farming or animal husbandry, thus turning a once earth and human-friendly activity into a mechanized and industrial process. Farmers are now nothing but businessmen, applying unfit economic models to agriculture, a need-dominated social activity, as if it were little more than yet another element of the consumer economy, turning out more and more unwanted junk. And maybe therein lies the rub. Too many of our wants have been reconfigured as needs, and vice-versa. That would explain why so much of what we eat is "junk food" and why our ag businessmen are subsidized by our government to keep on producing it. Garbage in. Garbage out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com