I think without integrating animals, I don't think it is. We wouldn't be able to cycle the fertility rapidly enough in agricultural systems and get a yield that we need if we didn't reintegrate animals. And all the, you know, terrible agriculture, monocropping that we're currently doing is really, most of it is to feed ... factory farm meat. It seems like an experiment that would yield disaster as results.
Jessica Chiartas (@soil.life), founder of Soil Life, is a postdoctoral scholar and educator focusing on the long-term impacts of agricultural practices on soil health, with an emphasis on soil heterogeneity and the development of region-specific soil health indicators.
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