Advantages of organic farming over conventional farming.
A key principle of cow protection involves breeding bovine animals to obtain bulls that are engaged in working the land, as opposed to excessively expanding the herd to obtain byproducts such as milk.
The awareness that Organic yields are no where lower than those of the genetically modified crops used in conventional farming should be spread far and wide if we are to conserve our cows and culture.
In fact Organic farming is better able to withstand droughts, and is also relatively immune to the upcoming and inevitable shortages of petroleum supplies. In contrast, commercial agriculture depends heavily on petroleum-based chemical inputs, in the absence of which conventional crop yields would fall sharply.
Organic agriculture can play an important role…
How can organic farming withstand petroleum shortage?
Not only is organic farming better able to withstand droughts, but it is also relatively immune to the inevitable shortages of petroleum supplies. Industrialized agriculture, in which vast amounts of land are plowed, planted, and harvested using diesel or gasoline powered farm machinery in place of human and animal labor, is not a sustainable substitute for cow protection. Commercial agriculture is particularly vulnerable to rising costs of petroleum, including natural gas, which will be depleted at approximately the same time as oil.
Intensive animal agriculture, a production model that is being steadily adopted throughout the world, is a vast user of fossil fuel, mainly for the production of feed. For example, One acre of corn production in the U.S. requires approximately 140 gallons of oil The adoption of new seed varieties has intensified the dependence on petroleum-based chemical inputs. Natural gas is an ingredient for manufacturing the chemical fertilizers that support high crop yields in modern agriculture, while oil is a raw material for producing pesticides. The high yielding seed varieties (HYV)are more productive because they respond strongly to petroleum-based chemical fertilizer.
The most heavy price that humans pay by practicing conventional agriculture.
Industrial livestock farming systems are in fact incubation centers for disease outbreaks. Seventy five percent of emerging diseases in humans are of animal origin, and humans are at risk of being killed in large numbers by cross-species transmission of illnesses between, pigs, humans, birds, and other animals. Over the past 25 years, 38 illnesses have jumped to humans, as disease-causing pathogens have mutated and moved up the food chain.
Challenges before Indian organic farming.
India has been meeting its growing demand for food and fiber through organic farming systems in which bovine animals are bred to obtain bulls that are used to provide draft power. Surprisingly and sadly this practice is slowly dying out due mass slaughtering of cows and cow family.
The solution to India’s challenges lies not in the abandonment of compassion towards the cow, but rather in a fundamental reordering of agricultural production systems as well as a correct understanding of cow protection. Specifically, the underlying principle of cow protection is to engage and employ bulls to work the land, implying that cows are bred only to the point where the bovine population meets the demand for draft power, rather than the demand for the byproducts, e.g., milk. In sharp contrast, raising cows for the purpose of producing milk is an egregious error — the cow will not produce milk unless it has calves, and since half will be male, the result is an excess bovine population that is costly to support. Farming practices that do not engage the bulls will essentially condemn them to the slaughterhouse, since they will have no economic value other than their meat.
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