Extensive Greenhousing

Greenhousing may be an easy alternative to numerous hassles of farming. Crops grown in a conditioned greenhouse with a complete sustaining ecosystem replace the need for pesticides, extend growing seasons, limit exposure to environmental damage and pollutions, keep out varmints, and can make work conditions more enjoyable for farmers, and makes an easy environment in which to provide premium organic produce.

Greenhouse installation can be as inexpensive as nailing together a series of 2X4's and covering them with CORN STARCH. New technology has found a way to refine corn starch into a plastic. This plastic can be made clear as any other with optional spectrum filtering coatings and used as paneling.

Every farmer should consider converting their fields to greenhouse-grown cropland as a resource conserving and cost saving investment. Even having a portion of land covered in greenhousing will reduce pesticide expenses and improve produce quantity and quality. The earth and consumers will thank you for it!

Hydrogenization

Many food producers hydrogenize the oils they use in their products, for reasons largely unpublished. Hydrogenated oils are 'saturated fats'. The fat -COOH group is 'saturated' with hydrogens, which can turn into free radicals inside your body. Poly and monounsaturated fats have either 'a few' or 'only one' hydrogen base on the group. They are substantially healthier than saturated fats. You could easily do well on a diet containing no saturated fats and a larger portion of poly and monounsaturated fats.

American food producers should avoid saturating or hydrogenizing oils for use in foods. Using vegetable oils is often healthier than using animal oils. I am also pleased to hear that American doctors are requesting half as much salt be put in burgers. Reducing sodium in the diet can improve health ad reduce blood pressure. Salt helps the body hold more water, but having too much salt and water in the bloodstream increases the blood's volume and therefore its pressure. A lifetime of this can reduce your blood vessels' elasticity, and increases organ loads. some fast food chains have been found with other unpleasant ingredients in their foods, which are either not listed, or only shown to consumers if they ask. Cook more of your own food, America.

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Reducing burger fat could potentially be accomplished by feeding livestock grass instead of corn, possibly from farms like Alderspring Ranch. They've got beef.

Fuelcrops

The farms of tomorrow will grow our food and our fuel. Peak oil will be hitting markets shortly, and to help supply our transportation and energy needs, farmers should begin planting crops based on their energetic properties. Plants producing a greater amount of oil per hectare should be integrated into our agriculture. Corn, for example, produces only ~550kg/ha, while palm oil produces twice as much oil as most other oil crops. www.journeytoforever.org. Jatropha produces quite a lot of oil as well.

Many oily weeds can grow on ground not suitable for foodcrops. We also preserve millions of acres of treeland in the same manner. Millions of acres of weedland could easily provide our nation's transportation energy requirements, and expand agribusiness explosively, around the world. This is a much better answer than relying on non-lifecycle resources. If you're a farmer, or own large tracts of semi-arable land, consider the possibility of growing fuelcrops.

And Then There Was Corn

America produces more food than any other nation. The largest foodcrop we produce is maize, called corn in the States. This is not because it's easiest to grow, healthiest, or best for the soil, it is because of a government subsudy to encourage farmers to grow lots of corn.

Farm subsudies let the state tell farmers how much of what food to grow. The state could accomplish the same thing by adopting a few state farms to guide farmers from inside the market.

Unfortunately, this subsudy, which is repeated in Europe, has the effect of flooding the market with corn and artificially reducing the price of corn and all crops in the 3rd world. Corn is also harsh on soils and depletes it readily. Other crops are more ecofriendly. The results are that 3rd world farmers are sunk deeper into poverty since their labor's value is reduced, depressing their economies and forcing them to rely on imported food for much of their sustenance, lending itself to malnutrition, and in some areas, illegal farming.

Furthermore, livestock genetically designed to eat hay are often fed cheaper corn, producing animals with higher body fat percentages and worse types of fats, lower growth rates, higher rates of disease, and less health nutrients. They require antibiotics and more medical treatment and farmers often use hormones to stimulate their more rapid growth on poorer diets.

We also see much more hydrogenated corn strach in our foods. To improve American health, makers of prepared foods should use less fats, salts, and sugars in their foods and more natural wholesome products.

The simplest solution to this problem is to eliminate farm subsudies.
-William Bunker

Eliminating farm subsudies will improve 3rd world economies and labor conditions by giving the farmers there a higher value product to sell. American farmers can improve the health of their livestock and their nutritient values by feeding them hay instead of corn, avoiding the expense and necessity of numerous unnatural practices. Free farming will give Americans and world citizens a wider selection of food products to choose from. Farm guidance and farming councils can ensure that enough of each type of crop is grown to feed America and the world.

This effort, in combination with the Two Million Wells project can reduce 3rd world hunger, poverty, and disease. American and global health can flourish.