On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:28:49 -0500, "Pete C." >
wrote:

>
> sf wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:35:03 -0500, "Pete C." >
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > What really needs to happen is a large scale shift to aquaponic farming
> > > which uses 75% less water than old-school dirt farming, is typically
> > > "organic" and also is not dependent on an area with "good" soil, needing
> > > only a modest water supply and a good sun supply.
> >
> > Who is to say that aquaponic farming will sip water and not turn into
> > the polluted messes that fish farming has become?
>
> A decade or two of aquaponics around the world provides good evidence
> that it won't. Aquaponic systems perform better when run "organically".

All that will change after agribusiness gets into it.


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