Sentences with phrase «means modern farming»

So, far from being detrimental to the environment, the ever increasing demand for food means modern farming is critical to our ability to maintain biodiversity and wildlife.

Not exact matches

Modern farming practices, meant to increase yields and resist pests, have left overworked farmlands depleted of essential nutrients like magnesium.

Farm animals in New Zealand are supplemented today with selenium and boron; this wasn't the case in the past, and as New Zealand soil is poor in these trace elements, this means the meat supplies more micronutrients than the meat our ancestors ate (the deficiency was because of New Zealand's volcanic soil, not our modern farming methods).

First, modern industrial farming practices have drastically depleted soil of its nutrient content, this means we are likely receiving much less than we used to.

Instead, it becomes something much richer, exploring the toll that parenthood — primarily motherhood — can take on many people, in this frantic modern world of ours, especially those without the means to farm out labor to others.