"Jill" > wrote in message
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> Julie wrote:
>>
>> Horse shit!!! is around in abundance. In fact the world cannot give
>> it away these days, more than enough to go round.
>
> With plenty of wormers and other substances in which would kill the insect
> life in the soil.
> Clever one
> There are also not enough equines in the right places so you would be
> increasing your carbon footprint drastically moving this high bulk low
> quality item around the country.
>

interesting that pete advocates keeping equines as pets.
The one problem with them is that actually their muck only fertilises the
areas they are in. If you haul their muck away, then you have to find
something to replemish the fertility of the area they are grazing

> Then we have seaweed
>
> So you are advocating stripping and decimating our marine environment to
> produce food for too many people, let alone the colossal transportation
> problems and its effect on any carbon footprint.
>
>> etc In fact we could always go back to what farming is really about.
>> Farming and working with nature!

good old fashioned organic rotation, alternating livestock and cropping

>
> Ahhh that is your method of population control :-- starvation and disease.
> I know there had to be some logic somewhere.
>

The interesting bit is what we use in the UK when we can no longer out bid
the Chinese for soya. Ironically they seem happy to pay more to use it for
animal feed than we are to use it for human consumption

Jim Webster