Food Crash: A Farmer on Offense

Michael Olson’s Food Chain Radio Show #1384

Which way should we grow food: our way or nature’s way?

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Guest: Dr. Felix Zu Lowenstein Farmer & Author Food Crash: Why Organic is the Only Way Forward

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Food Crash – Why Organic is the Only Way Forward

Yogi Berra once gave this piece of sage advise: “When you get to a fork in the road, take it!” And so we ask:

Which way should we grow food: our way or nature’s way?

This from Dr. Felix Lowenstein’s new book, Food Crash, under the subtitle: The Conflict: Intensive, Chemical-Based Industrial Agriculture Versus Organic Farming

“It is also clear to me that if you work for a market whose food prices allow a population to spend only 10 percent of their income on food, you must take every opportunity to save on unit costs. You can’t produce wheat using organic farming methods and sell it for a conventional price. It is even less possible with pigs or eggs.

There is no mistake: you either farm in one system or the other.

And yet, we must have the discussion. We must be allowed to question whether what we have hitherto considered guaranteed and correct will still be sustainable in the future. And if it no longer does, we must talk about transformation processes.

Together, we must explore how we can transform a system that is not sustainable enough into a state that leaves opportunities for future generations— opportunities that are as good as those we have found and that can help all people, regardless of whether they live here or on the other side of the world.

I ask you for this openness and the willingness—and be it with a skeptical frown—to follow me. I would like to make the claim that you can do in the organic way that which is no longer possible, in the long run, with what we today call conventional.

And that leads us back to our question:
Which way should we grow food: our way or nature’s way?

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