[zjp]

I wish the relationship between ancestral findings (trying to avoid the word knowledge) and science didn't have to be so adversarial. If you've got an idea that a plant can help with certain illnesses there's probably a natural product to extract from it. If you think a traditional way of managing land is better than whatever is currently being used, let's run a test.

We could probably collaborate effectively, but the mere suggestion that those ideas be subjected to the scientific method is denounced as prejudiced.

[gus_massa]

> If you've got an idea that a plant can help with certain illnesses there's probably a natural product to extract from it.

But Big Pharma is doing that. They love to find new drugs, make a synthetic version, improve it and then sell it.

> If you think a traditional way of managing land is better than whatever is currently being used, let's run a test.

There are many methods to reduce fertilizers and other farming cost. In most place farm land is not replaceable and you have to keep it working for many years. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_rotation Farmers are trying many methods.