Must Commerce, Ecology and Agriculture Always Be At Odds With Each Other?

Must commerce, ecology, and agriculture always be at odds with each other?

• business. conservation. production. necessarily strange bedfellows? is there some way the three can be COMBINED into one stronger, more sensible process? or must there always ...show more

• Answer:

  Business is in general a heartless thing with statistically more businesses now putting all their eggs in the basket labeled "The Bottom Line". The big business has come under fire a number of times from the older, mostly retired executive sector who criticize the younger new exec's as being heartless, money grubbing ruthless criminals. They have their dirty work done in countries without worker protection laws, hire lawyers to skirt laws and issues on technicalities in the name of the bottom line and forcing the people and government to pay the bill to close the loopholes. I am grateful for the small farm making a comeback from the big agro-giant. In the world of the farmer and the crop there are still big groups who try to make huge harvests with known questionable techniques in the name of "The Huge Nation we have to feed". So mountains of surplus go to waste while others starve, even in this country (I'm in the US) in this century. And government still writes checks to people to not grow a certain crop? And still, in light of all we know, land is still being abused in the large scale make a buck farm corporation. Thanks to the independent grower that embraces the land and cares, I buy from them first, always local in season. The mega farm and mega business is still a tight union but they will not for long, as "The times they are a changin". Conservation is an elephant, not so much in that it's memory is long (and it is), but in that it is slow but as it gains momentum and speeds up, get out of the way or get flattened. For the most part, all that are involved here are into it heart and soul. They can't be swayed for money or power, as they now have their own. And they have "right" on their side and know it. And they have "fear" on their side and use it. And they have science on their side so they know and you know and no one is going to be fooled. Of the three aspects, they overlap only where they agree and where they don't agree is that which defines them, but like everything, time and the people will always find a happy medium and do the right thing. The wealth of the people, the health of the world, and having every ones basic needs met is the one shining moment that has been the goal of society since the first people, not a simple thing to do but is worthy enough and it will happen.