Artificial Scarcity or Natural Limits?

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Tue May 12 16:00:27 PDT 1998


Mark Jones wrote:


> Michael, forgive me for being crassly obvious, but how are your urban archipelagoes
> of market-gardens going to compete with Monsanto-driven, feedlot type modern
> agribiz?

Obviously, they will not. Small gardens can compete now for some speciality crops, but with some difficulty. The question to which I was responding [I thought] related to Marx's vision of what agriculture could be.

Presently the feedlots are poisoning our water, the phisteria outbreak being an obvious manifestation. The antibiotics fed to the animals are threating to breed very dangerous diseases. Yet the irrational becomes rational in an irrational society.

-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929

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