[lbo-talk] GM rice - top of the crops

[Michael Perelman]

Not exactly.  With enough objective study, even GM cropping might make sense.
I do say that traditional techniques have been undervalued and constrained by social, 
economic, and political factors; that people must take into account the problems 
associated with giant hog farms or the other forms of pollution associated with large 
farms; that traditional farming does a better job of providing employment in 
countries with excessive unemployment ....

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:30:59AM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> Shiva - and Perelman - deny that modern farming is massively more 
> productive than traditional techniques, right? So is this wrong? 
> Isn't it true that India has massively increased grain production 
> without increasing area under cultivation?
> 
> Doug
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Michael Perelman
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