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The Future of Food, According to 'Mother Jones'

"Forget about food miles. What about poop miles?" —Mother Jones' Paul Roberts Mother Jones' food issue is out, and the lead story is an insanely long, detailed, and infinitely reasonable (for a change) look at what the future of real sustainable agriculture might look like all over the world. The author, Paul Roberts, concludes (after about ten bazillion words) that the answer to producing sustainable food will demand a multi-faceted, non-doctrinaire approach that will require: The fresher-than-thou, no-chemical food zealots to chill out (he suggests that instead of getting rid of all pesticides we have a more realistic and more productive goal of reducing their use by 80 percent) Government support for food sustainability research and development. That support might...

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1 Comment | Posted by Ed Levine, March 5, 2009 at 7:30 AM
Tagged: farming, Mother Jones, sustainability