Small farming is dead. It doesn't exist esp in the US. 'Farmers' are the
social equivalent of laundromat-owners, the economically disenfranchised,
overmortgaged persons who apply lots of energy and toxic chemicals to things
and hope for the best. In the UK, the class of prepacked sandwich-makers is
more numerous than the class of farmers. I'm sure it's the same in the US.
Mark Jones
http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: 30 June 2000 17:37
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PEN-L:21031] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in the
> World-System and National Emissions of]
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>
> Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> >Doug:
> >>Does the revo also mean there won't be modern transportation,
> >>chemical fertilizers, mechnized plowing and reaping, etc.? Then
> >>there's truly no way to sustain a world population of more than, say,
> >>a billion people, maybe fewer - meaning that at least 80% of us have
> >>to go.
> >
> >You don't seem to be aware that smaller farms are more productive than
> >large agribusiness type concerns.
>
> Where did I endorse large agribusiness? If small farms are more
> productive, then let's have more of them; I'm all for separating the
> imperatives of capital from those of real social efficiency and
> humaneness. But even small farms use modern transportation and
> machines.
>
> Doug
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