Can the Polyface Approach Feed the World? by Joel Salatin at Brownstone Institute By far the most common question people ask me is, "Can the Polyface approach feed the world?" Yet another big op-ed piece in the New York Times on Sept 28 took this position to marginalize non-chemical agriculture, using the oft-quoted idea that we would need three times as much farmland to produce the food the world needs if we quit using glyphosate and chemical fertilizer. Let's take a walk into history and ...