Instead of using pesticides, and having most government farms and food programs' crops grown in monocultures, farmers should be encouraged by the government to let animals graze on the land and also plant crops, eliminating the need for other chemicals, and to grow a diversity of crops. Therefore moving into a system where cultivating polyculture crops are more common. During his argument, Pollan points out to the huge monocultures of the midwestern, the fencerow-to-fencerow planting policies of Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture, the reeking feedlots, and the chemical fertilizer industry, Earl Butz, all as disastrous pieces of our quantity-over-quality, and cheap calories. Unsurprisingly, the way we eat and grow food is very connected to how healthy we are, which is why I believe Pollan is on the right track towards making a healthier choice on the way our food is cultivated and
Instead of using pesticides, and having most government farms and food programs' crops grown in monocultures, farmers should be encouraged by the government to let animals graze on the land and also plant crops, eliminating the need for other chemicals, and to grow a diversity of crops. Therefore moving into a system where cultivating polyculture crops are more common. During his argument, Pollan points out to the huge monocultures of the midwestern, the fencerow-to-fencerow planting policies of Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture, the reeking feedlots, and the chemical fertilizer industry, Earl Butz, all as disastrous pieces of our quantity-over-quality, and cheap calories. Unsurprisingly, the way we eat and grow food is very connected to how healthy we are, which is why I believe Pollan is on the right track towards making a healthier choice on the way our food is cultivated and