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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 12:58:16 -0400

If their stated goal is to transition as many farmers as possible away from
conventional, chemical, pesticide, gmo agricultural practices,
phase that out and phase in robust natural practices, then that is
admirable and I wish them success. The word of success with natural methods
would spread to untold numbers of farmers around the world and they too
would use natural methods or rather natural and permaculture, become
believers, become financially successful and never look back and boycott
such entities as monsanto and bayer while they were at it.

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:

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




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