FATAL HARVEST THE TRAGEDY OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE EDITED BY ANDREW KIMBRELL ISLAND PRESS 2002 FOUNDATION FOR DEEP ECOLOGY PART V CORPORATE LIES: BUSTING THE MYTHS OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture Myth Three: Industrial Food is Cheap THE TRUTH If you added the real cost of industrial food – its health, …
PICKING OLIVES AT LAKKIA 2011 DISEASES OF THE 20TH CENTURY AND GOALS OF OUR FARM www.slowlivinggreece.com cwillis@hol.gr Background Each fall we invite people to Lakkia to share community by picking olives. It is an occasion to be in the clean and relaxing atmosphere of the countryside, to have fun, to enjoy a meal …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART 1I PART II: THE SCARCITY SCARE Chapter 1: Standing Room Only? Too Many People? Question: We now have less than one acre of cultivated land per person in the world and that will be cut …
FATAL HARVEST THE TRAGEDY OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE EDITED BY ANDREW KIMBRELL ISLAND PRESS 2002 FOUNDATION FOR DEEP ECOLOGY PART IV CORPORATE LIES: BUSTING THE MYTHS OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture Myth Two: Industrial Food Is Safe, Healthy, and Nutritious THE TRUTH Industrial agriculture contaminates our vegetables and fruits with pesticides, …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART 1 Front flyleaf v The cause of hunger is NOT too many people. v The cause of hunger is NOT scarcity of arable land. v The cause of hunger is NOT overconsumption by greedy Americans. …
FATAL HARVEST THE TRAGEDY OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE EDITED BY ANDREW KIMBRELL ISLAND PRESS 2002 FOUNDATION FOR DEEP ECOLOGY PART III PART TWO CORPORATE LIES: BUSTING THE MYTHS OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture Industrial agriculture is devastating our land, water, and air, and is now threatening the sustainability of the biosphere. Its …
FATAL HARVEST THE TRAGEDY OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE EDITED BY ANDREW KIMBRELL ISLAND PRESS 2002 FOUNDATION FOR DEEP ECOLOGY PART II PART ONE FARMING AS IF NATURE MATTERED: BREAKING THE INDUSTRIAL PARADIGM The Whole Horse: The Preservation of the Agrarian Mind by Wendell Berry Global Monoculture: The Worldwide Destruction of Diversity by Helena Norberg-Hodge Machine …
FATAL HARVEST THE TRAGEDY OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE EDITED BY ANDREW KIMBRELL ISLAND PRESS 2002 FOUNDATION FOR DEEP ECOLOGY PART I Front flypage We find ourselves in the midst of a historic battle between two very different visions of the future of food in the 21st century. The decades-long domination of the industrial model of …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XV 12.8 What chance a brown revolution? The ‘Green Revolution’ has particularly benefited crop production in areas with irrigation or a sufficient and reliable enough rainfall to guarantee returns on inputs such as fertilizers. The spread of modern varieties into …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART XII Chapter 11: The Weight of Numbers (Cont.) Agriculture in the developing world The recent agricultural history of the developing world has been very different from that of the industrialized world. These countries had …
