tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37894952.post7552825833201306630..comments2023-09-06T03:55:53.012-07:00Comments on Nowhere to go but everywhere: Some slightly good news for pigs, amidst lots of really terrible news.Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198921079835614264noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37894952.post-17205244566080913752011-03-19T22:27:41.841-07:002011-03-19T22:27:41.841-07:00As usual, you're right. I read it first in P...As usual, you're right. I read it first in Pollan, but Pollan give credit to Berry's essay / concept "Solving for Pattern," which refers to seeking out solutions that address multiple problems while not creating any new ones. In this example, chemical fertilizer solved the problem of not having enough feed for our livestock, but created additional environmental and infrastructur-al issues, some of which could probably have been predicted and even mitigated.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198921079835614264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37894952.post-51258002747970214822011-03-19T21:26:03.480-07:002011-03-19T21:26:03.480-07:00Yes! That third one is also one of my veg buttons!...Yes! That third one is also one of my veg buttons! (or at least one of my food activism buttons). It actually comes from Wendell Berry originally, I think. One source I know if this is Pollan's "Vegetable-Industrial Complex" article where he writes "Wendell Berry once wrote that when we took animals off farms and put them onto feedlots, we had, in effect, taken an old solution–-the one where crops feed animals and animals’ waste feeds crops–and neatly divided it into two new problems: a fertility problem on the farm, and a pollution problem on the feedlot." So inelegant.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445688693296690667noreply@blogger.com