Unsustainable Sustainability Agricultural producers are readying for the convening of the UN’s Food System Summit later this year. The goal of the Summit is to arrive at a plan for guiding the change in farming around the world to meet the world body’s sustainable development goals. Those goals do not encompass economic viability and so the concern is that they will be Draconian relative to how farming is currently done. For example, UN bureaucrats could recommend provocative policies such as: • reduced use of crop protection chemicals and fertilizer; • eliminating the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture; • limiting the use of biotech crops; and • dietary limits on consumer a...
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An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.
A pika (/ˈpaɪkə, ˈpiːkə/ PY-kə, PEE-kə[3][4]) is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America. With short limbs, a very round body, an even coat of fur, and no external tail, they resemble their close relative the rabbit, but with short, rounded ears.[5] The large-eared pi...
Lobelia (/loʊˈbiːliə, lə-/[4][5][6]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae comprising 415 species,[7] with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate regions.[8] They are known g...
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