Podcast: Play in new window | Download The grotesquely misnamed “Green Revolution” that since the 1960s has been replacing traditional farming around the world with genetically modified, mechanized, chemical-intensive, debt-ridden industrial agriculture has worked so well in India that a quarter of a million farmers there have committed suicide in 16 years. The Center for [...]
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Free the Food: A Tea Party Worth Having
April 26, 2011
Here and there around the United States, groups of activists are taking their country back from a tyrannical government and declaring their independence in a critical area of their lives. It’s not the Tea Party, and it’s hardly an Arab Spring, but it could be significant if it takes hold. Three towns in New England [...]
Chinese Self-Destruction II
December 28, 2010
While the world watches with a mixture of envy and awe, China rises. Its political, economic and military power grows at dizzying speed, its leaders seem unfettered by any restraints. Yet it is the very restraints that bedevil other countries’ leaders — political opposition, free investigative journalism, special-interest activism, and public, protracted, messy debate — [...]
The Swine Weed Pandemic
October 9, 2009
The Swine Weed Pandemic It’s ironic that while our attention is being directed to the swine flu epidemic, which doesn’t seem to be hurting much of anything, a real threat to our life-support system is crawling out of the wasteland created by chemical-industrial agriculture: the super-pig-weed. It looks just like the pig weed that corn-, [...]
Go Ahead. Cry for Argentina
September 10, 2009
Go Ahead. Cry for Argentina http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/09/AR2009090903211.html?hpid=topnews Industrial agriculture is in the process of taking down another country. For half a century, Argentina has prospered by raising the world’s finest grass-fed cattle on its vast plains. In the process, it did not degrade its land, nor did it abuse its animals. But in the world according [...]
Coming Detractions
June 26, 2009
Want a preview of the likely deterioration of climate and agriculture in this country over the next several years? Watch India today. Time Magazine ["The Truant Monsoon: Why India is Worried" June 26, 2009] reports widespread panic in the country because the monsoon season of heavy rains that replenish the rivers and make agriculture possible has [...]
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