This is apparently the same Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce (1853–1932) who famously blew the whistle on the horrific conditions and malnutrition in Canada’s residential schools in 1907.
And here we are a century latter and facing the same problems.
Right now the only thing keeping farming going on the Prairies is the influx of European farmers who have relocated after selling their land to allow urban expansion.
If the world order completely fractures, we will need to move people from the cities back to the countryside. Already food prices are exceeding the mortgage payment each month, and with higher fuel prices. We will need to grow more of our own food to supplement what we can afford from the market. During WWII, they called them ‘Victory Gardens’.
You need roughly 1 acre per adult person to grow enough vegetables to feed someone for a year. It would require another part of an acre to grow wheat or oats to balance the diet. Basically we will need a return to the old 200 acre family farms to keep everyone fed.
How ever, with the advent of industrialized farming, the production is skewed again. Factory farms raising pigs produce as much sewage as a town of the same population. Cattle feedlots are similar producers, as are chickens. Farms hosting one million large animals and 10’s of millions of chickens are common. The problem is that banks prefer to lend to large corporations instead of small to medium size farms in the mistaken belief that the larger corporation is a better risk.
I get the feeling that everything old will become new again.
Very interesting.
This is apparently the same Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce (1853–1932) who famously blew the whistle on the horrific conditions and malnutrition in Canada’s residential schools in 1907.
I've been at events that happen around his tombstone https://beechwoodottawa.ca/en/blog/peter-bryce-gets-his-own-mailbox-advance-first-national-day-truth-and-reconciliation
And here we are a century latter and facing the same problems.
Right now the only thing keeping farming going on the Prairies is the influx of European farmers who have relocated after selling their land to allow urban expansion.
If the world order completely fractures, we will need to move people from the cities back to the countryside. Already food prices are exceeding the mortgage payment each month, and with higher fuel prices. We will need to grow more of our own food to supplement what we can afford from the market. During WWII, they called them ‘Victory Gardens’.
You need roughly 1 acre per adult person to grow enough vegetables to feed someone for a year. It would require another part of an acre to grow wheat or oats to balance the diet. Basically we will need a return to the old 200 acre family farms to keep everyone fed.
How ever, with the advent of industrialized farming, the production is skewed again. Factory farms raising pigs produce as much sewage as a town of the same population. Cattle feedlots are similar producers, as are chickens. Farms hosting one million large animals and 10’s of millions of chickens are common. The problem is that banks prefer to lend to large corporations instead of small to medium size farms in the mistaken belief that the larger corporation is a better risk.
I get the feeling that everything old will become new again.
A century later, the excuse for wanting to starve the peasants is the climate change cult.