Sun 23 Sep 2012
Myths about industrial agriculture
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , Democracy , Globalization/EmpireNo Comments
Vandana Shiva Aljazeera
Industrial agriculture is an inefficient and wasteful system which is chemical intensive, fossil fuel intensive and capital intensive. It destroys nature’s capital on the one hand and society’s capital on the other, by displacing small farms and destroying health. According to David Pimentel, professor of ecology and agricultural sciences at Cornell University, it uses 10 units of energy as input to produce one unit of energy as food. (more…)