Comments on: I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/07/01/i-do-not-like-green-eggs-and-ham/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:14:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: pest control walthamstow http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/07/01/i-do-not-like-green-eggs-and-ham/#comment-16913 pest control walthamstow Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:52:39 +0000 http://www.theartofthepossible.net/?p=329#comment-16913 great site, thanks for all the information great site, thanks for all the information

]]> By: Is Sustainable Agriculture Sustainable? « Upturned Earth || John Schwenkler http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/07/01/i-do-not-like-green-eggs-and-ham/#comment-9530 Is Sustainable Agriculture Sustainable? « Upturned Earth || John Schwenkler Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:55:47 +0000 http://www.theartofthepossible.net/?p=329#comment-9530 [...] tough, since while - as I’ve indicated before - I’m hugely inclined to buy into Kevin Carson’s wonderfully contrarian take on this matter, I also tend as a rule to defer to Bailey on just about everything scientific. So [...] [...] tough, since while - as I’ve indicated before - I’m hugely inclined to buy into Kevin Carson’s wonderfully contrarian take on this matter, I also tend as a rule to defer to Bailey on just about everything scientific. So [...]

]]> By: Kevin Carson http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/07/01/i-do-not-like-green-eggs-and-ham/#comment-5141 Kevin Carson Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:50:21 +0000 http://www.theartofthepossible.net/?p=329#comment-5141 Thanks, Adam. Thanks, Adam.

]]> By: “Walking the right of way” « Upturned Earth || John Schwenkler http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/07/01/i-do-not-like-green-eggs-and-ham/#comment-5140 “Walking the right of way” « Upturned Earth || John Schwenkler Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:47:37 +0000 http://www.theartofthepossible.net/?p=329#comment-5140 [...] in the name of “progress” and economic “growth”? (And cf. Kevin Carson on peasants “forced to abandon subsistence farming, driven off the land by feudal landed oligarchs in [...] [...] in the name of “progress” and economic “growth”? (And cf. Kevin Carson on peasants “forced to abandon subsistence farming, driven off the land by feudal landed oligarchs in [...]

]]> By: Adam01 http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/07/01/i-do-not-like-green-eggs-and-ham/#comment-5124 Adam01 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:53:17 +0000 http://www.theartofthepossible.net/?p=329#comment-5124 "The Green Revolution’s high-response varieties crowded out other viable alternatives that were more appropriate to traditional small-scale agriculture. Green Revolution seeds are actually less hardy and durable, under the conditions that prevail outside the subsidized agribusiness sector: less drought-resistant, for example." Outstanding. Genetically modified seeds, foisted on the world by the likes of ADM & Monsanto, are really hot house flowers: they can survive only with intensive (and unsustainable) imputs of water, chemical fertilizer/pesticides/herbicides. “The Green Revolution’s high-response varieties crowded out other viable alternatives that were more appropriate to traditional small-scale agriculture. Green Revolution seeds are actually less hardy and durable, under the conditions that prevail outside the subsidized agribusiness sector: less drought-resistant, for example.”

Outstanding. Genetically modified seeds, foisted on the world by the likes of ADM & Monsanto, are really hot house flowers: they can survive only with intensive (and unsustainable) imputs of water, chemical fertilizer/pesticides/herbicides.

]]> By: If you read only one (more) thing today … « Upturned Earth || John Schwenkler http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/07/01/i-do-not-like-green-eggs-and-ham/#comment-5121 If you read only one (more) thing today … « Upturned Earth || John Schwenkler Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:39:22 +0000 http://www.theartofthepossible.net/?p=329#comment-5121 [...] today … July 1, 2008, 12:39 pm Filed under: agriculture, science/tech … make it Kevin Carson’s takedown of the standard narrative of the Green Revolution. I talk about this issue a little bit in my AmCon [...] [...] today … July 1, 2008, 12:39 pm Filed under: agriculture, science/tech … make it Kevin Carson’s takedown of the standard narrative of the Green Revolution. I talk about this issue a little bit in my AmCon [...]

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