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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Marketing GM: the making of poverty
  • Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 06:50:27 -0700


how many parallels we see with industrial farming in the U.S.

paul tradingpost@gilanet.com
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Marketing GM: the making of poverty
Kisan Mehta 7 - 8 - 2003
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-6-1411.jsp

Marginal farmers in India find it difficult enough to ensure a modestly
sustainable life on existing patterns of land ownership and seed
availability. But when manipulative marketing strategies introduce GM seeds,
cash dependency and debt, their poverty becomes a cruel trap. (entire article
linked)





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