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The Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture: Myth Seven
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13908
By The Editors, Fatal Harvest
October 3, 2002

Editor's Note: "The Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture" is
excerpted from Fatal Harvest, a new book that chronicles the disasters of
industrial farming. 


Myth seven: Biotechnology will solve the problems of industrial agriculture



The truth:
New biotech crops will not solve industrial agriculture's problems, but
will compound them and consolidate control of the world's food supply in
the hands of a few large corporations. Biotechnology will destroy
biodiversity and food security, and drive self-sufficient farmers off their
land. 


The myths of industrial agriculture share one underlying and interwoven
concept -- they demand that we accept that technology always equals
progress. This blind belief has often shielded us from the consequences of
many farming technologies. Now, however, many are asking the logical
questions of technology: A given technology may be progress, but progress
toward what? 

whole article at http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13908