Comments on: The Borlaug Bounty: Feeding a Billion http://theinspiredmedia.com/2009/08/the-borlaug-bounty/ inspire. be inspired. an experiment in positive news. Mon, 24 May 2010 17:34:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jennifer Casey http://theinspiredmedia.com/2009/08/the-borlaug-bounty/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Jennifer Casey Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:18:15 +0000 http://theinspiredmedia.com/?p=428#comment-153 On my way through Decorah recently, I was charmed by your magazine, but wanted to add my critique of the green revolution. Critiques of the the industrial food system go much deeper than the environmental effects of pesticides, alarming as they may be.... With the help of fossil fuels, monocrops yields have increased food quantity dramatically, but quality of the food produced has decreased markedly. This has led to an epidemic of diet related chronic disease and has ruined many people's food sovereignty. In India, hundreds of thousands of farmer suicides has been a result of being caught in an unsustainable mode of farming dependent on expensive inputs and left them unable to make a living or provide real food for their families. You might find the work of Raj Patel or Vandana Shiva interesting... And lastly: "Borlaug's "green revolution" has been criticised for decades by a wide variety of different groups for all sorts of reasons - ranging from making farmers dependent on a range of industrial products to soil and aquifer depletion to creating a food production system that is dependent on a finite supply of fossil fuel based inputs." -from the oildrum.com Good luck in your endeavor! -Jennifer On my way through Decorah recently, I was charmed by your magazine, but wanted to add my critique of the green revolution.

Critiques of the the industrial food system go much deeper than the environmental effects of pesticides, alarming as they may be….

With the help of fossil fuels, monocrops yields have increased food quantity dramatically, but quality of the food produced has decreased markedly. This has led to an epidemic of diet related chronic disease and has ruined many people’s food sovereignty. In India, hundreds of thousands of farmer suicides has been a result of being caught in an unsustainable mode of farming dependent on expensive inputs and left them unable to make a living or provide real food for their families.

You might find the work of Raj Patel or Vandana Shiva interesting…

And lastly:

“Borlaug’s “green revolution” has been criticised for decades by a wide variety of different groups for all sorts of reasons – ranging from making farmers dependent on a range of industrial products to soil and aquifer depletion to creating a food production system that is dependent on a finite supply of fossil fuel based inputs.” -from the oildrum.com

Good luck in your endeavor!
-Jennifer

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