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

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:31:48 +1000, "FarmI" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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><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-crops.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. 
>

I wonder about the addition of high fructose corn syrup, and all sorts
of corn derivatives to our food. And eating what barely p***** as
"meat".  I agree with your observations about kids when we were young
as compared to now, but all problems are overdetermined, too many
variables and too many combinations of variables perhaps.

Something else that comes to mind that is different and that is causing
a bit of a ****storm, as it should, is all the vaccinating of our young
that is so effing required nowadays. 

Care
Charlie