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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DavidP" data-source="post: 1413982" data-attributes="member: 7430">I enjoyed the program but felt it was all a bit nieve.The bit where she was walking thru a lovely wildflower meadow and describing the life of which there was plenty and thats where we should be heading. Its precisely because of the poor fertility that there were so many flowers and consequently insects and I doubt the hay crop from that would be that self sustaining for a large number of cattle over the winter.Then there was the lets change from eating cereals to eating nuts comment which I guess in theory might be an idea but for some reason in the last 10,000 years of agricultural development doesn't seem to have become the dominant force.Maybe a better direction would be to bioengineer/genetically engineer nitrate fixing bacteria into maize and try and reduce nitrate fertiliser use that way. I'd agree over population is probably the more important factor, something perhaps the Chinese should be given more credit for addressing even though I'm sure it hasn't been done in a humane way and wouldn't condone their actions.</blockquote>