{"id":2694,"date":"2010-01-04T23:59:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T04:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2010-01-04T23:59:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T04:59:01","slug":"repostwho-will-grow-your-food-part-i-the-coming-demographic-crisis-in-agriculture-casaubons-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/04\/repostwho-will-grow-your-food-part-i-the-coming-demographic-crisis-in-agriculture-casaubons-book\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Who Will Grow Your Food? Part I: The Coming Demographic Crisis in Agriculture : Casaubon&#039;s Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nWho Will Grow Your Food? Part I: The Coming Demographic Crisis in Agriculture<br \/>\nCategory: Collapse \u2022 Peak Energy \u2022 agriculture<br \/>\nPosted on: January 4, 2010 9:00 AM, by Sharon Astyk<br \/>\nNote: This is the beginning of a multi-part series on agricultural education, the farming demographic crisis and the question of who will grow our food &#8211; what the problems are, how we will find new farmers, how they will be trained. To me, this is one of the most urgent questions of our time.<br \/>\nA quick, Jay Leno style quiz for the man and woman on the street.<br \/>\nWho will grow your food in the coming decades?<br \/>\nA. My friendly neighborhood agribusinessman will grow my food on a plantation the size of Wyoming using nearly enslaved non-white folks who are deported minutes after harvest. Or maybe there will be robots involved somewhere. Yeah, robots are good.<br \/>\nB. Farmers, of course. You know, those dumb people in the flyover states that we tolerate because they give us dinner. Where will they come from? Well, don&amp;apos;t they grow in the ground upside down like raspberries? Or do I mean zucchini? Well, either way, I think they reproduce by spores.<br \/>\nC. Food grows? You mean in the ground? With DIRT on it? And bugs? Ewwww.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/casaubonsbook\/2010\/01\/who_will_grow_your_food_part_i.php?utm_source=selectfeed&amp;utm_medium=rss\">Who Will Grow Your Food? Part I: The Coming Demographic Crisis in Agriculture : Casaubon&#8217;s Book<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting read. Maybe agriculture could be a way out of poverty???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who Will Grow Your Food? Part I: The Coming Demographic Crisis in Agriculture Category: Collapse \u2022 Peak Energy \u2022 agriculture Posted on: January 4, 2010 9:00 AM, by Sharon Astyk Note: This is the beginning of a multi-part series on agricultural education, the farming demographic crisis and the question of who will grow our food &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/04\/repostwho-will-grow-your-food-part-i-the-coming-demographic-crisis-in-agriculture-casaubons-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Who Will Grow Your Food? Part I: The Coming Demographic Crisis in Agriculture : Casaubon&#039;s Book&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}