An ignored but hugely important study shows that we can grow food on a large scale, profitably, with far fewer chemicals. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
A Simple Fix for Farming
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PHOTOS: Plant Tomatoes. Harvest Lower Crime Rates.
A growing body of research shows that urban farms reduce violence. Original post on motherjones.com Comments on reddit.com
Democratic Unfreedom – Social Technique and the Manufacture of Control
A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress. – Herbert Marcuse Original post on truth-out.org Comments on reddit.com
How ACTA will take down the Internet, healthcare, and farming [Infographic]
Finally, Outrage in China Against Bear Farming – NYTimes.com
The practice of bear farming — and the milking of the bears for their allegedly medicinal bile — is gruesome enough that hundreds of thousands of Chinese have attacked a pharmaceutical company with online complaints over the firm’s plans to triple the size of its bear farms with a public offering of shares on the Shenzhen stock exchange. Still, the practice continues. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Amid Economic Strife, Greeks Look to Farming Past – NYTimes.com
As Greece’s economy plunges and unemployment rises, many Greeks are fleeing to the countryside and looking to the nation’s rich agricultural past as a guide to the future. More