Unsealed Documents Raise Questions on Monsanto Weed Killer

Re:Unsealed Documents Raise Questions on Monsanto Weed Killer by ethbro on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:33PM (#13879059)

There's a relevant quote in-between the two you cited. (And noting that the author is obviously a proponent of permaculture farming, rather than a less biased investigator)

> Conventional agriculture doesn’t seek to maximize yield per acre; it seeks to maximize yield per unit of labor. If we had 10% of the population engaged in agriculture rather than the current 1%, we could easily feed the country without petrochemicals or pesticides.

Interestingly, it may be that with coming automation we may be better served by reallocating 9% of our population back to agriculture...

Also, in a similar vein to permaculture, I found this article fascinating if you haven't come across it yet. https://medium.com/invironment/an-army-of-ocean-farmers-on-t...

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Re:Unsealed Documents Raise Questions on Monsanto Weed Killer by spraak on Thursday March 16, 2017 @01:05AM (#13882675)

Thanks for your reply :) I'm enjoying that article so far. Very good quote and point about automation. There's a forum called permies [1] where I've seen posts about such permaculture automation :D

[1] https://permies.com/

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