New Study Shows Organic Farming Can Feed The World

Bon Appetit!

Just saw this and thought of your question. Hope this helps!

Biodiverse systems are more productive

Thanks to both of you and all who came here to help in this work.

Food and Health and Hope.

…and the modern-day heirs of Dr. Goebbels at their service…

I call Godwin on this silly man.

I may even agree with many of his points. But Murphy’s rhetoric is, as usual, juvenile, pandering and appalling. How can FDL keep this guy around while canning T-Rex for being too inflammatory?

TREX:
I want these guys to be able to go forward from here without worrying that something I write, either on the front page or in the comments, is going to cross the line and potentially hurt their reputation or keep them from being able to have more amazing guests like Naomi Klein, Senator Chris Dodd, John Dean, and anyone else who might want to come by.

http://firedoglake.com/2007/11…..tion-bell/

Dump this clown, Christy and Jane, and bring back TRex! Murphy is really not doing your reputation for mature, reality-based coverage of politics any good.

Dr Shiva is a micobiologist and physicist who has campaigned since the mid 1990s against GMO crops, labelling such genetic engineering as the technology of absolute control. She has established community seed banks across six states in India.

Though the book was published a while ago, its contents remain as relevant today as they were back then. She presents a series of personalised case studies, meticulously researched and narrated with intimate poignancy. The cases presented in the book are all from India but they have relevance to what is happening in the USA and has happened in Latin America.

Leave you with a chilling memo penned by Lawrence Summers, Chief Economist with the World Bank, in 1991:

Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [less developed countries]?…The economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable, and we should face up to that … Under populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted; their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City … The concern over an agent that causes a one-in-a-million change in the odds of prostate cancer is obviously going to be much higher in a country where people survive to get prostate cancer than in a country where under-five mortality is 200 per thousand.

Get your head around the central concept of this line of thinking : LDCs are under-polluted, peoples in LDCs have lower life expectancies so its ok to export polluting industries there bc these peoples are unlikely to live long enough to succumb to illnesses which are the byproduct of such pollutants.

I’d be interested in reading it too!

Thanks to all – new and familiar – who joined us in the discussion tonight – and thanks to all of you for making it productive. Thanks also to those who joined us to read (sitemeter tells us you’re there.)

I look forward to checking back later on to read the discussion here.

Working together, we’ll win.

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