Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food

the grass plant (corn) cycling phosphorus, and legumes (peas and green beans) cycling nitrogen, being transferred to each other by mycorrhizal fungi.

also need less grain to produce them, reducing the pressure on food crops and the use of fertilizers too. And it’s a huge boon for animal welfare whenever fewer livestock

In this regard, media reports about “land-less” urban agriculture—hydroponic cultivation in high-rises—are particularly devoid of any real understanding of global food demand. Such high-input operations can produce leafy greens (lettuces, basil) and some vegetables (tomatoes, peppers) whose nutritional value is almost solely in their vitamin C cont

"Use of herbicide tolerant crops virtually guarantees that beef, poultry and pork will have higher contamination levels of selected pesticides than such livestock had previously. Special tolerances for Roundup herbicide residues in silage were instituted to increase the utility of Roundup Ready soybeans in animal feed crops.""