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RE: ⛄ Warming breakfast in the ❄ Snowy Mountains 🌨 sharing photos from the Austrian Tyrol ⛰
Wow, what a view! I often hear arguments about people in extreme climates and veganism. Is there any non animal agriculture in the area?
This is the topic I want to discuss a bit in a future post, how pressure from modernization has reduced down the agriculture activities to just milk production. It was a lot more varied when my grandma was a young woman, there wasn't really shops then So of course there was a time when they were producing all sorts but also used animal products because the winters are very hash but this was all done sustainability. Now Tirol Milch dominate the market of milk production and that's it. Vegetables are grown on bigger farms on wider vallys in Tirol because its easier for mass production and keeping costs down.
I will be keeping an eye out for that post for sure. I hear loads of different arguments against Veganism all the time, so I am always looking to see if any of them hold weight. Like animal waste being used as fertilizer. I know of several fully plant based organic farms that only use crop rotation and mulched plant waste fertilizer. So that is a non runner. People also say that we would have to fly our veg in from all over the world, again in some cases yes, we would, after all we already do. BabyCorn from Africa, tomatoes from turkey etc. so I don't see a difference there. We can grow quinoa in Ireland ffs so I cant see how it is impossible for most if not all of the world to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle.
I think the use of animal excretion depends on which plants you're intending to grow. Crop rotation is not always the key. Besides, as far as I know some plants take too much minerals from the soil that a year or so of rest and pasturing can do a good job.
However, it's futile to tell people who are doing the work how they have to do it. ;) People's views on sustainability may vary. Speaking for myself: I value the old culture a lot.
Cool, so is there an alternative to animal excretion? Would decomposed plant material work in these scenarios?
When I say crop rotation I do also mean to say having a rest period on the soil too. That would be typical in a crop rotation scenario. Crops like Hemp and quinoa help to regenerate the soil too. Now I am by no means a botanist but there must be ways to re vitalize the soil for a higher yeild the following year?
How come should your region have avoided the trend for food mass production which came up with the establishment of supermarkets? :)
Little cottages are still dying - not because there's no people asking for the products but because the people running the cottages hardly find successors.
its good to respect the old culture but it barely exists anymore, maybe there a few farmers still doing it. the old ways were every cottage would have some animals that would sustain the family but that doesn't exist anymore. even small farms use modern methods that are detrimental to environment. TO be a human being is too live in a reality that constantly changes. u cant cling on to the past, the world is not the same but u can still respect it and learn from it