AFP: Prince Charles warned Wednesday at a US conference debating the future of food that unsustainable farming methods are overtaxing nature and pushing the global food system into crisis.
"In some cases, we are pushing Nature's life-support systems so far they are struggling to cope with what we ask of them," the heir to the British throne, who is a long-time advocate for sustainable food production, told some 700 people packed into a meeting hall at Georgetown University.
"Soils are being depleted,......
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Prince Charles urges US not to overtax Mother Nature
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 5th, 2011
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