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iktor Schauberger also had concepts similar to Rudolf Steiner's biodynamics for the production of natural fertiliser. His ideas and their practice, however, do not necessitate the use of the thousands of cow horns presently employed by de Podolinsky. Those millions of horns are only available through the increasingly widespread consumption of beef and other meats, which from about 2 million tonnes in 1950-52 rose to 11 million tonnes in 19841. This expansion, however, has taken and is continuing to take a serious toll on the ecology and environment of the producing countries. A recent scientific study in Costa Rica, for example, showed that for every beef carcass exported, 2 1/2 tonnes of top soil were irretrievably lost through erosion. Quite obviously, such widespread damage is totally unsustainable. Moreover, in view of the increasing movement away from a predominantly meateating diet in many Western countries, a gradually accelerating decline in meat consumption can be envisaged, which will eventually put a stop to the supply of cow-horns. This movement is now growing very fast due to the increase in heart disease and cancer associated with the overconsumption of animal protein and the moral implications of intensively cruel industrialised methods of meat production, so graphically depicted in all their horror by C. David Coats in his book Old MacDonald's Factory Farm2. Amongst other countries in the so-called 'civilised' world, in Great Britain for instance the num-
ber of vegetarians has doubled since 1990, representing 7% of the population or 3.1 million people3. This is an enormous acceleration in changed awareness which, if manifested on a world-wide basis, would inaugurate equally far-reaching changes in the present balance between pastoral and arable agriculture. Purely from the point of view of acreage economics, which must be taken into account in view of the rising world population, whereas a meat-eater requires the produce from about 1.6 acres to survive annually, a vegetarian needs only 0.66 acres, or about 41% of the first figure. Any system therefore, which enhances fertility both quantitatively and qualitatively without the need of large animal-based inputs is certainly preferable. In our examination of biological farming methods, we have moved from the inorganic to increasingly higher organic and energetic processes. In addition to those already discussed, there are further ways to enhance and strengthen growth and fertility. These involve the amplification of the Earth's fructigenic, qualigenic and dynagenic ethericities, which were described in chapters 4 and 5 as aspects of the Sun's fertilising role, and which are the spiritual driving force of life. Because of their close intercommunion with the higher dimensions of being or existence (viz. levels c4 to c6, chapter 4 - 4.6), these energies operate at extremely high
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