[TheUWfarm] in the news

This article was on the uw website.
http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55636
It addresses serious questions about negative impacts of climate change on food production. My first question is,"Should we be using massive amounts of corn for ethanol, plus corn and soy to feed cattle that ought to be eating leaves and stems of wild grasses and forbs, not giant, protein-packed grain from resource-intensive, cultivated grass and forbs?" Here are some informative websites:
http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/feed/
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/aug97/livestock.hrs.html
http://www.grassrootsmeats.com/grass-fed-beef-versus-corn.html
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn/cows.html
This isn't a discussion board so please don't respond here, but I hope we can discuss some of these questions about food security and ecological sustainability among ourselves as we work on the farm. A lot of good, smart people are trying to figure out how to move the growing human family forward in time without destroying the earth's natural ecosystems. We should be part of that discussion. We have a growing library and I hope people are using it. If you know of books the farm should have, tell me and I'll get them.
In despair tempered with irrational optimism,
Keith
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Keith Possee
Medicinal Herb Garden
Biology Department
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University of Washington
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