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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals

The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals — The American, A Magazine of Ideas: "the parts of farming that are the most “industrial” are the most likely to be owned by the kind of family farmers that elicit such a positive response from the consumer. Corn farms are almost all owned and managed by small family farmers. But corn farmers salivate at the thought of one more biotech breakthrough, use vast amounts of energy to increase production, and raise large quantities of an indistinguishable commodity to sell to huge corporations that turn that corn into thousands of industrial products."

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