To be successful agriculture must rest on a firm

 To be successful, agriculture must rest on a firm ethical foundation that can only be
clarified through vigorous debate that includes scientists, farmers, other practitioners, and
the consumers of food
 Farmers also need reinforcement from the government for practices that provide services
such as a tight nutrient cycle
 Locally based agriculture can provide ecosystem services that are of great value regions.

 In coming years, nations, local communities, and individuals will have to make many
difficult ethical decisions concerning the competing requirements of agricultural
production, ecosystems, economics, and social justice.
 An agriculture based on a series of isolated components—crops separate from livestock,
farmers distanced from consumers, farming separated from culture, and production
systems disrupting ecological processes— won’t sustain us into the future.
Article #12 “Redesigning Agriculture”
Q & A
1. What is the Haber-Bosch process – what does it have to do with agriculture?
2. “the cycle that circulated nutrients from the land through animals and back again to
the land has become leaky and significantly alters ecosystems” – comment in detail
on this statement.
It refers to the inferences of farm management on the nutrients cycle. ‘Leaky’ and
‘significantly’ means the use of the land and the future of framings and how it impacts the
environment and its people. This statement refers to the nutrients that has the potential to
become significant from the wastes of animals in the farm storage infrastructure.
3. How can ethics and philosophy help make better decisions about agriculture?