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 In one of the longest studies ever conducted on organic farming practices, research by the US-based Rodale Institute has found that organic soil management not only minimizes fossil fuel use, it can also reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide by removing it from the air and storing it as carbon in the soil. Scientists at the institute estimate that if organic practices such as planting cover crops, composting and crop rotation were implemented on the planet’s 3.5 billion tillable acres, nearly 40 percent of current CO2 emissions could be absorbed.
A farmer can feed up to 30 persons throughout the year on 1 hectare with vegetables, fruits, cereals and vegetable fats If the same area is used for the production of eggs, milk or meat, the number of persons fed varies from 5 to 10
Source: FAO, 2006; CAST 1999; B. Parmentier, 2007
We are short of food; everywhere is food shortage. Everywhere the food price rising so high that people, even middle class people are having difficulty to make ends meet.
So growing vegetables now should be profitable, should be a very good incentive already. If the government encourages them, explains to them, they will know it. And the best is if the government can do it. But you, individual citizens of the world can also do it.
Try to go to the farmers one by one, whenever you can make the time to go, even though we are not in a power position like the government. But we can try, one by one to persuade the farmers to change their lives, to grow vegetables to feed humans instead of raising animals. Tell them the picture. Tell them the situation.
- Supreme Master Ching Hai - 6 July 2008– London Conference (1)
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