[PEN-L:28641] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

["ken hanly" <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lou. Check this out. http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/swine/prod/states.html#io

US hog production is not centred in North Carolina but Iowa. In fact Iowa is
far and away the leader in marketing. North Carolina produces many little
piglets. Many are shipped to Iowa. Why? Because it is cheaper to ship the
pigs to where the feed is than vice versa.

Cheers, Ken Hanly


----- Original Message -----
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 10:14 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:28575] Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva


>
> >I thought the problem was capitalist farming, not "industrial" farming.
> >
> >Doug
>
>
> No, I meant exactly what I said. It is a function of what John Bellamy
> Foster calls the "metabolic rift". It doesn't matter particularly where
you
> put a factory. The same thing is not true about farms. Right now pork
> production is localized in North Carolina while the feed is produced in
> Iowa. This has had disastrous consequences for our water and for our soil
> and for our health. Socialism cannot simply appropriate this type of
> production and make it work for the common good.
>
>
>