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

"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> FarmI wrote:
>> "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-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.
>>>
>>> The question is "were the diseases rare or were they commonplace
>>> and
>>> the diagnosis of them rare"?
>>
>> They were rare.
>
> How do you know that?

Because I have a good memory of my childhood and the children I grew up 
with, have always been interested in social history and pay attention when

media re****ts an increasing incidence of such diseases.  Here are a couple

of articles which supprt the information re****ted in our national news:
http://www.nationalasthma.org.au/HTML/strategy/cam/cam005.asp
http://www.allergy.org.au/content/view/28/255/

>> They aren't now, but I also these days they might be
>> overdiagnosed.  Seems every second kid wanders round with an Asthma
>> puffer.
>
> None of the kids in my neighborhood walk around with asthma puffers.

How do you know that?

24% of the US population has it, 36% of the UK, 33% of Aus and it is
rising 
at 0.5%/year.