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Agriculture: Our biggest environmental disaster

There are no "good times" of agriculture. When people began to herd animals and scratching land for planting of seeds, agriculture has been a destructive force of the environment. We have a variety heard in recent years on the destruction of the rainforests of South America and the Red Forest, California. Every state has some form of agriculture. All ecosystems in the United States has been affected by the activities agricultural. The rainforest and redwoods are more glamorous of the prairies of Illinois or New York.

In recent decades, agriculture, organic agriculture sustainable or were discredited among farmers as a move back to 18 agriculture practices of the century. Companies of chemicals and fertilizers used these images to impress farmers if they want to use a practical alternative to "modern" agriculture is likely to spend much time looking at the wrong end of a horse. But 18 or 19 or even early twentieth century farming practices were as destructive as today's practices.

So how are we supposed to eat? We do so through agriculture. Anyone who thinks I mean, we re-farming and hunting and gathering jumping to conclusions. The problem of agriculture has always been the way it did. The slash and burn to no-till agriculture, industrial chemicals, through centuries of man's attempts to raise a crop, the environmental impact on the environment was of little importance.

In the 1970 U.S. farmers were encouraged to take all the fences and plant every inch of maximizing profits. This attitude has been fostered not really benefit farmers but rather to benefit companies that farmers sell their products. What if you won more than four acres on a farm a thousand acres. The benefit is not due to high corn prices were low.

In addition to the fence farmers plowed their pastures, took out the wood, and other degradation of their properties in search of benefits. Or maybe it was not just profits but a desire to participate in the economy booming consumer against a similar level workers or other persons have worked for a living. The effect of their activities has increased erosion, destruction of wildlife habitat, biodiversity loss, and increased chemical runoff.

Agriculture by nature is a harmful activity. But how much agriculture do we need? How one of the millions of tons of grain actually go to feeding people? It feeds the grain to feed livestock and really worth the amount resources and environmental destruction environment that is the result of this practice? A trip to the grocery store aisle after aisle reveals things that people can eat. But since they must be treated in the real value food is exhausted and some of them is a mixture of toxic chemicals and additives, not worth the energy used to produce it.

Top days of human activity remains agriculture in the future. Until the full impact of agricultural practices on the environment are reflected in the final product cost in the highlands, agriculture will be a wasteful destructive force.

About the Author

Michael Dappert is a co-founder of Winco, Inc., a provider of wireless internet access to small communities in West Central Illinois. Everyone is invited to discuss a wide range of issues at Flyoverfolks.com.

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