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What ecological destruction has actually been caused by peasant farming?

And how can you sidestep the ecological damage - toxic run-off to rivers and coastal areas, water-table pollution, excessive irrigation demands, soil erosion and decline of soil fertility, creation of specific pests and diseases through monoculture, destruction of biodiversity through same and through use of pesticides, flash-flooding and freak winds as a consequence of destruction of hedges and ditches, concentration on products of doubtful necessity like over-production of meat/dairy and their attendant maize, GHG emissions through excessive livestock production, rainforest destruction not carried out by small peasants - caused by industrial farming?

Or is your version of industrial farming some techno-wet-dream that will be happening in 1.5 billion years?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jul 25th, 2011 at 12:31:42 PM EST
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