Green washing I got a true problem with aquaponic industrial farming. Despite it brings ecological food solutions for the big cities, I cant agree with the model of society it promotes, surfing the organic wave to give to eat to the customers the same insipid food than traditional agro-industry, but with no chemistery in. In a way, this is really better. Who could wish something else than no pesticide? But, if we mind a bit, that still is an industrial process, where fishes live in very, very bad conditions (hundreds parked in small plastic tanks), where plants grow far away from the soil and where no natural light comes in. Certain types of aquaponic production use lots of electricity, and the farms are more factories building than green houses. To make sure everything is under control, the complete chain turns on itself, close to the sterile farmings we already find in Japan. So... Aquaponics technics are very interresting at a small scale, but as they grow they seem to be something closer to human survival than better living. In France, but it is true in many other countries, there are thousands of tons of fresh water fishes (essentially carps) that are destructed, or turned to animal food just to keep an equilibrium into lakes and ponds. We all are partially responsible of that, because we forgot, or changed our minds about cooking these fishes instead of sea fishes often coming from far away. Our punishment is to find more and more Tilapia fish to eat instead of local species,and also the salads and tomatoes that grow on a solution made of their shit. No taste, no sunlight, no soil, no Life. https://youtube/watch?v=HWQUeNUfIO4
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 06:46:19 +0000
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