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Feeding the Ten Billion Part 14

FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS                  1998 PART XIV Chapter 12: Feeding the Ten Billion (Cont.) 12.5 Old and new crops We are an exploratory, inventive species, fascinated by the new, dispensing with the old. So ‘new’ crops attract optimistic headlines while old ones are often blamed for …

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Eating Animals Part 7

EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS                       2009 PART VII   Chapter 4: Influence/Speechlessness (Cont.) The life and death of a bird The second farm I saw with C was set up in a series of twenty sheds, each 45 feet wide by 490 feet long, each holding in the neighborhood of 33,000 birds. …

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Feeding the Ten Billion Part 13

FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS                  1998 PART XIII Chapter 12: Feeding the Ten Billion 12.1 Introduction: routes to greater food production The world must develop the capacity to feed the ten billion within the next 40-50 years, predominantly within Asia and Africa. There are two quite separate …

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A Green History of the World Part 10

A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS              2007 PART X   Chapter 10: Disease and Death (Cont) The diseases of industrialization and urbanization From the late 18th century there was a wave of rapid population growth, industrialization and urbanization in western Europe and …

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Stolen Harvest Part 2

STOLEN HARVEST THE HIJACKING OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS           2000 PART 1I Chapter 1: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Cont.) Creating hunger with monocultures Global chemical corporations, recently reshaped into “life sciences” corporations, declare that without them and their patented products, the world cannot be fed. Industrial agriculture …

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Eating Animals Part 6

EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS                       2009 PART VI   Chapter 4: Influence/Speechlessness   On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime. Lam Hoi-ka Johan Hultin, a six-foot-tall Swede arrived in Brevig on August 19, 1997, and got right to digging. Beneath the feet of solid ice were …

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