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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@mailman1.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] PROPAGANDA, DISINFORMATION & LIES: 3 Big Myths about Modern Agriculture - Scientific American
  • Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 12:50:21 -0400

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Scott Pittman <scott@permaculture.org>
wrote:

> I had a totally different take on this article Lawrence, it seemed to show
> that small farms are more efficient, less inputs, and higher productivity.
> What did I miss??
> Scott
>
>
1) "Myths get in the way of our ability to restore degraded soils that can
feed the world using fewer chemicals"
whoever said anything about chemical use in the first place - the
indigenous, local, traditional farmers did not use any chemicals
and they fed their nation for centures if not millenia
They slipped this one on you. They assuem that their readers will assume
that chemical use in farming is the de facto standard and the only way to
feed the world
THIS IS A LIE
2) "
*The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an
online publication covering the latest research."*
I.E. The latest research in corporate chemical, pesticide, gmo agriculture
3) More garbage slick boilerplate propaganda:
"One of the biggest modern myths about agriculture is that organic farming
is inherently sustainable. It can be, but it isn’t necessarily. After all,
soil erosion from chemical-free tilled fields undermined the Roman Empire
and other ancient societies around the world
<http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520272903>. Other agricultural
myths hinder recognizing the potential to restore degraded soils to feed
the world using fewer agrochemicals."

Of course organic farming is inherently sustainable. How else would there
stuill be people on Earth.
"feed the world using fewer agrochemicals" Who said anything about using
agrochemicals in the first place. I thought were were talking about pure
organuic farming.

"In both the developed and developing worlds, these farmers rapidly rebuilt
the fertility of their degraded soil, which then allowed them to maintain
high yields using far less fertilizer and fewer pesticides."

If they are using chemicals they are not farming organically, regenerative
or sustainably and again who ever said anything about using chemicals in
the first place. I thought they were talking about restoring soil using
natural methods for soil regeneration, sustainable harvests and greater and
more reliable production.

It is nothing but slick propaganda to promote continued chemical and gmo
use in international agriculture.
There was just enough credible info in that article to enable it to see
that it was on the side on natural farming practices.
You can bet if those farmers ever got a foothold growing naturally and
beginning to dominate the marketplace plus encouraging many more farmers to
adopt those same methods they would suddenly be at risk, economically or
worse but hopefully not.
The article sends the message they agribusiness intends for chemnical and
gmo ag to dominate global farming. Monsanto and Bayer and others of their
kind will not rest until they have eradicated traditional, natural,
independent, local and regional farming from the World's landscape. They
did it to the Seed Savers Exchange. Have a seance and ask th spirit of Dr.
Che Guevara what was going on in Guatemala before the full scale battle
ensued. Something about Chiquita Banana.
I wouldn't trust them one microsecond.


> On 5/12/2017 8:15 AM, Lawrence London wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> just so you will know the PROPAGANDA, DISINFORMATION & LIES they publish
>>> with impunity
>>> an absolutely disgusting article
>>>
>>> 3 Big Myths about Modern Agriculture - Scientific American
>>> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-big-myths-about-
>>> modern-agriculture1/
>>>
>>> I found this on Farcebook. The link to the article was posted by
>> Permaculture Guild to its page.
>> Just to show how Farcebook, along with other social media, is being used
>> by
>> the chemical, pesticide, gmo ag
>> mega corporations to appear in sync with the natural agriculture and
>> permaculture movements; stealing a credible term for its evil use.
>
>



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Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared




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