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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] the Big Lie
  • Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 22:04:33 -0600


from Farm Bill 2012: Time For An Overhaul With Innovative Farming Systems

Agriculture giant Cargill, Inc. emailed The Huffington Post stating that
global food security "is a central challenge of our times, and conventional
agriculture has to be part of the answer." A portion of their statement read:
We recognize there are different approaches and merits to conventional
and organic agriculture. However, taking organic to the scale of commercial
would require three times the amount of land to feed our rapidly growing
world population, which would create its own set of environmental
consequences.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/farm-bill-2012-innovative-farming_n_860069.html
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There's the Big Lie.

In fact conventional agricuture is NOT feeding the world now; one third of
the world's population, 2 billion, can't afford to buy enough food at
corporate prices.

Take the land and water wasted feeding 10 times more beef than we need and
feed people directly.

Not to mention millions just in the U.S. can produce much of their own food
at home, and a billion more elsewhere could if corporations didn't seize
their land.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net







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