On 06/04/2021 10:02, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , alan_m
writes
On 06/04/2021 01:23, Fredxx wrote:
On 05/04/2021 21:59, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 04/04/2021 16:02, Fredxx wrote:
If we want to says Amazon rainforests we should use less in direct
food products, rather than the lesser amounts used in animal feeds.
Â*I did mean save and not "says", damn spelchucker.

population Brazil:

211 million in 2020.
93 million in 1970
31 million in 1920.

This is the main driver for the destruction of the rain forests. Not
helped of course by Brazil not being in anyway unusual.
Â*It has been said most of the UK was forested until man came along.
Brazil is just following our lead.

+1

Its also being realised that intensive farming solely for food crops
is destroying the soil structure so incorporating a period where the
land is given over to grazing animals will be beneficial.

Tell Tim to look up Jethro Tull but I think something of the sort has
been practised since the Bronze age!

Apparently so. Evidence from 6000 BC indicates crop rotation and fallow
periods were in use then.


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