Re: 100 Pounds of Food/Year From a 12 Square Foot Plot?

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 "FarmI" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> > FarmI wrote:
> >> <Charlie> wrote in message
> >>> Sorry, I was also reading this article and became cornfused about
> >>> what I was reading and where I was reading it!  Not an uncommon
> >>> occurrence.
> >>>
> >>>
http://hartlandag.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-study-industrial-agriculture-cr
> >>> ops.html
> >>
> >> Interesting, but not surprising.  I am trying to remember how some
> >> of
> >> the
> >> measurements for organic vs inorganic food is done.   I seem to
> >> remember
> >> brix and baume but that is all that comes to mind.
> >>
> >> And one has to wonder why kids these day seem to have so many
> >> diseases that
> >> were rare when I was a child.  People of my age were relatively
> >> lucky
> >> because we were raised in an era when the production of food was
> >> organic, or
> >> only beginning on the inorganic track.  Kids when I was young were
> >> considered to be rather defective if they had things like Asthma,
> >> psoriasis,
> >> allergies etc, because they were incredibly rare.  Now they seem to
> >> be
> >> almost the norm rather than the exception.  Something has sure
> >> changed since
> >> I was a kid.
> >
> > The question is "were the diseases rare or were they commonplace and
> > the diagnosis of them rare"?
> 
> They were rare.  They aren't now, but I also these days they might be 
> overdiagnosed.  Seems every second kid wanders round with an Asthma
puffer. 

The tables don't show allergies (including asthma and environmental 
allergies), cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Asperger syndrome or 
autism. I do fit it interesting that Salmonellosis increased from 712 in 
1944 to 3,946 in 1963, to 5,407 in 2006. The population doubled in size 
and there was nearly an eight fold increase in salmonella toxicity. It 
seems that somebody doesn't care how much **** we eat.
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