Food and Sustainability

I read an article on a website titled Cultures of Resistance. The article focused on issues with farming. The article discussed how until recently farming had not changed much for many years, but as a result of the laziness of Americans they have found other ways to do the jobs they once had such as fertilizing and tilling the soil. These alternatives are known as pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers, and also cheap fossil fuels. Although it was thought that these synthetic fertilizers and pesticides were only helping in agriculture they were actually polluting the crops and the food that many people eat. A greater problem on the sustainability end is the huge amounts of fossil fuel that are needed to keep industrialized farming going. At the end of the article it provides ways that one can contribute to getting rid of these aspects of farming or atleast trying to eliminate this out of their own lives. These ideas are eat local, eat organic, and eat less meat!

http://www.culturesofresistance.org/food-issues-food-and-sustainability