Agriculture is the most important activity on this planet as far
as survival is concerned and recent reports have attributed most
greenhouse gas emissions to Ag given ‘Approximately 37,000,000
hectares (91,000,000 acres) worldwide are now farmed
organically, representing approximately 1% of total world
farmland (2009) (see Willer/Kilcher 2011)’ Wikipedia. The rest
99% use toxic chemicalsmanufactured from oil, natural gas and
God-knows-what else in the guise of herbicides, insecticides,
growth hormones leading to cancer, allergies, sterility,
infertility, insanity, vanity I tell you! There is hope
though…thanks to sustainable agriculture; organic farming and
the principles around urban farming, hydroponics, aquaponics,
greenhouse tech, irrigation, water desalination, agroecology…Yes
we can go green with agriculture but first we need to spread
information about the risks of the current method of agriculture
which I call chemical farming. The Risks of Chemical
Conventional Farming Last weekend we went for a trip