Sentences with phrase «modern agriculture do»

«What these critics of modern agriculture don't realise is that they are working on an outdated model.»

«What these critics of modern agriculture don't realise is that they are working on an outdated model,» says Paarlberg.

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How we came to do this is a twisting tale that science writer Maryn McKenna elegantly unspools in her extraordinary new book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats, which was published in September.

Maybe God can feed and clothe us, but look how much better modern agriculture and industry do the job.

More importantly, to do so without all the harmful farming practices utilized in the modern corporate agriculture industry.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

They don't deal with the ecological problems of modern agriculture, like erosion and lack of soil biodiversity, critics say.

The main trigger of this bee mortality does not seem to be the use of pesticides in modern agriculture.

This is consistent with recent findings that AMY2B copy number is highest in modern dog populations originating from geographic regions with prehistoric agrarian societies, and lowest from regions where humans did not rely on agriculture for subsistence34 and supports the claim that the expansion occurred after initial domestication (possibly after the migration of dingoes to Australia 3,500 — 5,000 years ago) 34.

As modern industrial agriculture has been described as a process to turn fossil fuel into food it really does not make much sense to then turn this food back into fossil fuel substitute.

What we're doing now, in modern industrial agriculture, tends towards the latter.

«You couldn't really do agriculture in Ancient Greece,» according to journalist and author Will Storr, whose book «Selfie: How We Became So Self - Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us,» says the roots of the modern world's striving, vain culture can be found in the lands around Olympus.