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ਵੀ ਡੀ ਵੀ ਡੀ JAINA CONVENTION 2017
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Avoid eating certain green vegetables during rainy seasons. During that time, eat other crops such as legumes and beans on several days of the month.
You might not yet see the connection between the Jainism principles mentioned above, and the solution to our food shortage problem, but the answer will soon be clear.
Let's see where your imagination can take you.
Assume for a moment that all the people in the world are living according to the Jain principles mentioned above. Now suddenly you will be able to visualize in this imaginative world that:
Because there is no demand, there is no need to raise animals for food by feeding them grains and soybeans in MASSIVE quantities. All the animals in the world would be roaming free in their natural habitat and foraging and finding their own food in the wild.
Most of the people who would otherwise be raising cattle would be growing crops. People wouldn't waste any food.
The food being produced would come from local farms in most cases.
Because there is one season when you do not have to grow green leafy veggies, you would use that land to grow legumes and beans instead. Thus, you would rotate the crops at least once in a year. During this time, the legumes and beans would re-introduce nitrogen in soil which significantly boosts the soil fertility and biodiversity of the soil organisms.
The food being produced would be always seasonal, so there would be no need to use chemical fertilizers.
There would be no need for consolidation of local farms into giant food operations because there is no economical reason to do so.
Legumes and beans can be stored away for many months without spoiling them so you would be able to eat them all year long while also eating green vegetables at least 8 months a year.
There would be no need to use chemical pesticides or genetically modified organisms because year over year you are rotating crops. You would be growing a lot of varieties of foods in a
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