The "faster, bigger, cheaper" approach to food is slowly draining dry our planet's resources and compromising your health.We can add "Getting Food Production Right" to our positive predictions for the future.
The Earth's soil is depleting at more than 13 percent the rate it can be replaced.
The documentary "FRESH" celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system.
The film demonstrates how we can collectively transform the current "industrial agricultural paradigm" into a healthier, more sustainable way of feeding the world, while restoring the health of our ailing planet.
I hope you will set aside the time to watch it, as it will be time well spent.
We have already lost 75 percent of the world's crop varieties over the last century.
Over the past 10 years, we've had 100 million tons of herbicides dumped onto our crops, polluting our soil and streams.
The agriculture industry now tries to convince us that housing 110,000 to more than one million chickens or 20,000 hogs in a warehouse is a necessary practice to feed the masses.
The quality of our food is in free-fall, and disease is rampant. Not to mention that the quality of life for those animals is so horrid that many people cannot bear to look. Meanwhile, the human population on our little blue globe continues to rise, recently topping 7 billion souls. We simply cannot sustain this growth with our current model. If we continue along the present path, world hunger will continue to escalate without a viable way to meet the need.
In the future we'll get food right, too
At Mercola.com, Dr Joseph Mercola was allowed to show a new documentary entitled Fresh for free until March 3rd. See what he had to say about it here.