[lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy

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Fri Aug 26 23:44:23 PDT 2005



> >>
> This is silly. I know plenty of vegeterians who are
> neither short nor
> stunted, who are quite healthy and long lived.

Right, because they eat a carefully planned and highly varied diet of the sort that trad ag techniques can't provide when adapted to feeding a large population.


> watching various senior faculty troop in. It was
> kind of scary.
Each and
> everyone of them was bent to the shape of whatever
> chair they had been
> sitting in for the last forty years.

Are you really comparing ground down rice farmers to berkely profs with bad posture? Wow.


>you just spread the work around

Spread it around to where? Trad ag is monstrously inefficient, requires almost everyone to farm full time, and even then only achieves a standard of living similar to, say, early 19th century America.

Yuck.

I got better things to do with my life than plow : )

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