FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART VIII Chapter 7: The Food versus Poison Trade-off? (Cont) The human toll Even after the American insecticide Phosvel had been associated with the crippling of some 1200 water buffalo in Egypt, the Velsicol Chemical Corporation …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART VII Chapter 7: The Food versus Poison Trade-off? Question: You may be right that the numbers of people are not the real threat to the adequacy of food resources – that the real issues are …
FATAL HARVEST THE TRAGEDY OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE EDITED BY ANDREW KIMBRELL ISLAND PRESS 2002 FOUNDATION FOR DEEP ECOLOGY PART IX CORPORATE LIES: BUSTING THE MYTHS OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture Myth Seven: Biotechnology will solve the problems of industrial agriculture THE TRUTH New biotech crops will not solve …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART VI Chapter 6: People Pressure on the Ecosystem? Question: You have talked about the population problem in terms of the economic system. But what about the impact of increasing numbers of people on the ecosystem? The …
FATAL HARVEST THE TRAGEDY OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE EDITED BY ANDREW KIMBRELL ISLAND PRESS 2002 FOUNDATION FOR DEEP ECOLOGY PART VIII CORPORATE LIES: BUSTING THE MYTHS OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture Myth Six: Industrial Agriculture Benefits the Environment and Wildlife THE TRUTH Industrial agriculture is the largest single threat …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART V Chapter 4: More People: A Thinner Slice for Everyone? Question: As high birth rates eat up the economic growth of a country, won’t its total production necessarily be divided up into smaller and smaller …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART IV Chapter 3: The Price Scare? Question: Perhaps in specific countries you can make the case that the misappropriation of the land generates hunger. But how can you avoid seeing the global trend? Is not …
FATAL HARVEST THE TRAGEDY OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE EDITED BY ANDREW KIMBRELL ISLAND PRESS 2002 FOUNDATION FOR DEEP ECOLOGY PART VI CORPORATE LIES: BUSTING THE MYTHS OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture Myth Four: Industrial Agriculture Is Efficient THE TRUTH Small farms produce more agricultural output per unit area than large farms. …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART 1II Chapter 2: But What About the Real Basketcases? Question: Maybe in the world as a whole you are right, and there are, in principle, enough food-producing resources to go around. But don’t we find …
