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

In article 
<wildbilly-6F6C5D.22555428042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Billy <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article 
> <4816a740$0$8154$5a62ac22@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  "FarmI" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 be given> wrote:
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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 find 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.

I should have noted that this (1944) is when feed lots began began to 
become more common as the 24% (1930) of the population that worked in 
agriculture dwindled to 1.5% (2002).
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