HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dust Bowl, Night Soil, Wendell Berry
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Canadian government has to update the food recall warnings b/c of industrial revolution. America spends 6. 6 percent of income for food. Canada is 9. 6, european spends a bit more in 10s. However: mexico, india, china spend a lot more - in 20s. Access of food is the sign of prosperity. Appears to have less malnutrition in the west. The places where green evolution occurred: they are still spending more money for food. Cheaper food is not available everywhere and anywhere. Alternative agriculture and the british organic movement, 1920s-40s. See the first concern of food production and health. Later, result of green revolution, more urgent. Chemicals could replace manure; feed the plant, not the soil. 1840s, argued that chemicals could replace manure organic matters may be dispensed with; art is capable of providing a substitute for them. The npk mentality : belief that major plant nutrients are (n) nitrogen, (p) phosphorus and (k) potassium.
