Farmer in Cheif

I found this article to be very interesting. It talked about our current food system, how that system is affecting us and the world, and he gives a solution to that problem. Today we had a seminar talking about the article. One issue that came up was that there is a lot of people that don't want to change but I think that there is a lot of people that would like to change. Some people gave a suggestion about having homeless people growing some of the crops and a lot people thought that that idea was gross but if you think about it we bathe our vegetables with chemicals, our food comes from the dirt and it is good for the plant if we added some cow crap. We have the resources to change our ways and create food without the need of chemicals, fertilizers that have fossil fuel in them, and make the food much much healthier.

One really good idea that I read in the article was that we can make compost out of the food that we throw away and I think that is enough to cover pretty much all the farms. This will make the food grow better because it can hold more water so the plants can survive droughts and the plant will be more healthy and this way the people that consume it will be healthier as well. I also believe that we should not give the animals so much antibiotics because the bacteria becomes super bacteria and if a person gets that bacteria into their system and spread it to other humans than they are pretty much screwed because that bacteria would be resistant to all the antibiotics out there.

After all this reading I had a question floating in my head for a very long time. Lets say we managed to pull this off and everyone goes green. That means that there would be more food to feed everyone in the world and the food would be really healthy so the person eating it would turn more healthy. That means that the person would live longer because they are healthier so they have more children because they are healthy and live for a longer period of time. That means that the population will continue to grow even faster than before because we are going to have people having more people having kids and people living longer. My question is Up to when can we keep this up? Because if the population grows that means we would need more food and if we get more food we will get more people so how many people can the world hold? And I don't think the answer is unlimited. I think that in order to succeed we need to look really far into the future and find out the answer to this question without actually hitting the point of no return.