ES 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Organic Food, Pest Control, Local Food

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ES 200
• Professor: Hilperts Ryan

Document Summary

380- enviro history of the past 10 years. How to transition from regular farming to organic farming-farms need to change many things about their practice. Animals are important for organic agriculture-manure, bloodmeal and bone meal. They are integral to weed and pest management. When animals are taken off the family farm, the farm has less fertility, animals are locked up in factories to produce meat, the whole agricultural system gets changed. Factories that had been producing chemical weapons for the war were left with all this synthetic nitrogen, they turned the chemical leftovers into fertilizers and pesticides using the haber bosch process. I(cid:374) s(cid:373)all s(cid:272)ale (cid:374)atural setti(cid:374)gs (cid:449)here the a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als are (cid:448)alued for (cid:373)a(cid:374)y roles. Where they are(cid:374)"t pumped full of antibiotics, fed healthy food and kept safe. Closed-loop system is a self-sustaining system where animals provide fertility, plants grow, creates food for humans. Production systems- certified organic, sustainable, industrial, non-certified organic, conventional, gmo.