by Suzy Friedman
Organic, locally grown food: Better for your family and for our hungry world – right?
Heading to the farmer’s market in the warm spring sunshine, it’s easy
to feel like you’re doing everyone on Earth a small favor. But like
with so many things in life, it depends.
The truth is, there is no silver bullet when it comes to solving food security and environmental challenges in a world that will count 9 billion people by 2050.
So rather than asking which system comes out ahead, we must focus on
how farms perform. In some cases, conventional methods will have higher
yields as well as a smaller environmental impact.
That’s why we can’t afford to shut the door on either strategy. Let me explain why.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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