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The burning of Greece
One Greek said: \"They roasted us like fish,\" where \"they\" was understood to be local Greeks working for construction companies or foreign agents fighting a war against Greece. The mayor of Peristeri, a suburb of Athens, described the situation as a \"fiery tsunami.\"
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AMERICA'S FARM WORKERS STILL TOIL IN FIELDS OF DANGER
I wrote more than one memo to senior EPA managers explaining that the toxic exposure of farm workers during harvest put the EPA in an awful predicament. The agency had the responsibility to side with farm workers, forbidding the use of the known toxins. But the managers never responded to my reports - and with good reason. They knew things I did not. They knew that the EPA was sinking into a moral abyss. By 1980, EPA managers had to do something about the effects of the nerve poisons, documented by the Colorado study and, indirectly, by the [Clarence B. Owens] study. They knew farm workers were in constant contact with those killer sprays. But because they dared not ban the warfare chemicals from agriculture, they set up a fake \"farm worker protection program\" to take the steam off the pressure cooker. The EPA rejected the damning findings of Mr. Owens without any follow- up on the deleterious effects of sprays on the migrants.
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Family farms are the only way to protect U.S. from mad cow disease
Despite feeble attempts in the U.S. Senate in the mid-1970s to put a brake in the path of the agribusiness colossus, government policy never ceased lavishing America's large farmers with gold. In 1983, researcher Dean MacCannell, professor of rural sociology at the University of California, Davis, issued a severe warning that complemented the warning of [Walter Goldschmidt]: The size of farms matters in agriculture. Large farms destroy rural America. The most lasting effects of agribusiness include the suppression of the middle class and the decline of democracy, toxins in water and food, high rates of debilitating disease and often death from poisoning, incidence of monstrous malformations of the newborn in or near factory farms, higher rates of cancer among farmers and others living close to farmers, and the drastic decline of the small white family farmers and the near disappearance of the black family farmers. Mad cow disease is the product of these meat factories because industrialized farming treats cattle no differently than it treats any other manufactured product. Cattle no longer graze in the field: They are kept confined and fed, among other food, animal tissues, which exposes them to mad cow disease. mad cow disease never was a disease in the family system of farming.
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Mad cow is a symptom of sick agriculture
The most lasting effects of agribusiness include the suppression of the middle class and the decline of democracy, toxins in water and food, high rates of debilitating disease and often death from poisoning, incidence of monstrous malformations of the newborn in or near factory farms, higher rates of cancer among farmers and others living close to farmers, and the drastic decline of the small white family farmers and the near disappearance of the black family farmers. The Agriculture Department wrecked the lives of the family farmers, telling them to get big or get out. Its advice was wrong most of the time. Its science was not science but a technology of conquest, which it gold-plated with lavish subsidies, research and policies disdainful of democracy, nature and human culture. Sowing pro-agribusiness seeds in rural America brought forth the desired harvest -- 29,862 farmer millionaires in 2002, while 35 per cent of America's farmers earned less than $2,500. There are about 2.1 million farmers in America.
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Reaping disaster
Despite feeble attempts in the Senate in the mid-1970s to put a brake in the path of the agribusiness colossus, government policy never ceased lavishing America's large farmers with gold. In 1983, researcher Dean MacCannell, professor of rural sociology at the University of California, Davis, issued a severe warning that complemented the warning of Mr. [Walter Goldschmidt]: The size of farms matters in agriculture. Large farms destroy rural America. The most lasting effects of agribusiness include the suppression of the middle class and the decline of democracy, toxins in water and food, high rates of debilitating disease and often death from poisoning, incidence of monstrous malformations of the newborn in or near factory farms, higher rates of cancer among farmers and others living close to farmers, and the drastic decline of the small white family farmers and the near disappearance of the black family farmers. The Agriculture Department wrecked the lives of the family farmers, telling them to get big or get out. Its advice was wrong most of the time. Its science was not science but a technology of conquest, which it gold-plated with lavish subsidies, research and policies disdainful of democracy, nature and human culture. Sowing pro-agribusiness seeds in rural America brought forth the desired harvest - 29,862 farmer millionaires in 2002, while 35 percent of America's farmers earned less than $2,500. There are about 2.1 million farmers in America.
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Calling for food sovereignty for Africa ; Planting `lost crops' would reduce hunger, violence
The cash-cropping road to development is behind most of the violence in Africa. It provides the theory and practice of plunder. It condemns Africa to impoverishment and hunger--even pushing Africa's extraordinary variety of indigenous food crops to the verge of extinction. Africans, who are eating less of their own food, now eat more imported wheat, rice and corn. Why Africans eat less of their own food goes to the very heart of their hunger and dependency on others. Europeans heaped scorn on many of Africa's cereals. And Western scientists classified many African grains as cattle feed. That is why many of Africa's more than 2,000 varieties of indigenous grains, roots and fruits and other food plants have been lost--at least from the daily diet of most Africans.
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