Readit NewsWhen tailoring for one audience you usually do tale away something from other audiences.
This is not a good thing.
> barcodes highlighting allergens and other dangers
Walgreens, CVS, and Walmart already sell homeopathic sugar pills labeled as closely as legally possible to real medication, stored in the same sections, intermingled one box to the next on the same shelf. The lack of information about a product isn't a technology issue; it's a combination of proper information being expensive to produce and more expensive when it keeps you from buying a lower-production-cost alternative.
You see this in all kinds of markets. Say you want to buy a plant grow lamp; you want physical dimensions, power in, and power out. If you're a nerd or using a lot of them you might like the wavelength distribution (_and_ the units used to produce it), the weight, whether it has UV protection, .... That information is ommitted from most Amazon listings and the packaging from most big box stores. Why is it missing? I guarantee the problem isn't that they used a barcode instead of a QR code.
If you are of the opinion that there’s something that needs to be changed about this arrangement, your lawmaker is the one to contact.
We know. It's good at making stuff up. It's bad at facts or for generating things that withstand scrutiny.
Not in my experience.
The promises of many permaculture proponents, are close to a scam.
Basically, the claim is establish a working ecological system - and then it runs by itself, while producing lots of yield. Permanent Culture.
But in reality, wild nature takes over quite quickly, if you don't do anything. A fruit tree does usually not have benefits by making big red apples for example. Small ones are good enough for wild reproduction. But we want as many apples as possible, which means pruning, etc.
And a vegetable garden ... they like care, but if you don't tend to them, they will remain tiny and soon displaced by weeds.
So what I have seen in my experiments in my garden and on other permaculture farms - is that the result looks nice, but it is a lot of work and low yield. Some ideas like fruit forests are a nice additionm but all in all I doubt permaculture can feed the world. (I have not seen one permaculture farm, that could feed itself)
Regenerative practices would probably initially look like a reduced high side profit, and reduced land yield intensity but at significantly reduced input costs on chemicals and pesticides. The labour costs might be higher or lower depending. Then over time, yield to use would show for area in production actual profits were better but still to a lower high point. More certainty as long as e.g. massive disease or pest risk didn't strike.
And as long as organics have a higher premium price at lower yield, when the soil can pass the certification tests for residues there's a new profit highpoint.
That's my sense but perhaps there are better takes on it.
The profit per unit area can become very high.
The macro goal though isn't to attempt to deny the benefits of process in large enterprises, it's to promote more productive small business. There are natural benefits to scale in large enterprises, but in software, many of those benefits to scale are not inevitable. Outfits like WhatsApp succeeded at building immense scale with very few engineers. It may be a bit of survivor bias, but small businesses can outmaneuver large enterprises when they have more productive talent that is not hemmed in by all the safeguards that larger enterprises are required to have. But this is still separate from the fact that each have their place.
Safety measures ≠ world-dominating industrial scale.