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[PEN-L:28563] industrialized farming



Title: industrialized farming

[was: RE: [PEN-L:28559] Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva]

LP: >industrialized farming historically has meant one thing and one
thing only: the introduction of chemical fertilizers, monoculture,
pesticides and everything that goes along with that.<

Here in California, we have industrialized farming, with chemical fertilizers, pesticides, etc., but it's hard to describe it as involving monoculture.

BTW, I think that "commercial" or "commercialized" farming is a better term, referring to the profit-seeking motive. "Industrialized" focuses on the technique, which glosses over the commercial causes of use of destructive "industrial" techniques.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

 



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