Saturday, August 25, 2018
The modern Carvers
Via BBC, a research institute in sane anti-Sorosian Malaysia is doing for the modern tropical world what Carver tried to do for the South.
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Spindly moringa trees, cream-coloured bambara groundnuts, the sour kedondong berry – these are crops which have been farmed for centuries but are virtually unknown outside the places where they grow. Even here, demand is dwindling. They’ve been relegated to the sidelines, says CFF head Azam-Ali, in favour of the “big four”. Prof Azam-Ali explains that just four crops – wheat, maize, rice and soybean – provide two-thirds of the world’s food supply. “We’re dependent on these four,” he says. “But actually there’s 7,000 crops we’ve been farming for thousands of years. We ignore all of those.” Researchers are trying to unlock the potential of these ignored crops – plants they describe as forgotten, under-used or ‘alternative’ as they are displaced by increasingly uniform diets fuelled by processed ingredients from the major crops.Not surprising to find sanity in a sane country! This approach would be equally good everywhere. Get rid of overcentralized monoculture, find a wider variety of profitable and nutritious crops that can be raised efficiently. Industrial agriculture is necessary, but we've taken it too far in the last 20 years. Graybill's Law. Globalization reduces the range of resources and skills. What we really need here in lunatic USA STRONG is even simpler. We need to treat food as food. We need to quit wasting gasoline and electricity to raise corn as an additive that lowers the quality of gasoline used to raise corn as an additive that lowers the quality of gasoline used to raise corn as an additive that lowers th We also need to plant more sugar cane in the South, and quit using corn as the main source of sugar. Our insane supermonoculture of corn is driven by exactly one hyperinsane factor: The Iowa Caucus comes before the New Hampshire Primary. If the Iowa Caucus moved to June, we could stop misusing corn for totally wasteful and totally harmful ethanol, and let corn be a nice crunchy vegetable. This won't happen. Everyone knows it's PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to change the date of a meeting. Polistra and friends salute the original Carver:
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