Agriculture: Wisdom of the Uncivilized Crowds

This is a beautiful article about the Agriculture in India, before and after the "colonization".
How traditions and culture has been destroyed by it only bringing poverty and death.
GMO, a chemical agriculture and the farmer suicide, here a few excerpts:



"Then came along the colonialists. We all kinda know what happened. I'd just like to place an exerpt from Lord Macaulay's speech in the British Parliament on 2nd Feb 1835 (quoted elsewhere in various contexts on the web--typically nationalistic sounding ones). I first found it in Amartya Sen's book The Argumentative Indian:

'I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation.' "

One more:

"The colonialists are back (strong statement, indeed ;-) )--under the name of Monsanto, DuPont and several other MNC "Agri Businesses" who promise to solve the problem of the world's poverty. (Does that ring a bell?) Last time, it was by releasing the locked up nitrogen in a finite endowment of natural gas to create fertilizers, developing an infrastructure of farm mechanisation that relied (and still relies) on fossil fuels (specifically diesel) and quickly releasing water stored up in deep aquifers through the use of, yet again, cheap fossil fuels. (A significant portion of electricity comes from Coal + Oil + Natural Gas.)

This time, they're back with the same old excuse of attempting to solve world's poverty by manipulating our domesticated life forms' DNA."
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6166



The article ends with a famous American Indian quote:
Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

My hope is for Monsanto and its monopoly on the food to end as soon as possible.
One way to do it is to STAND TOGETHER, UNITY IN DIVERSITY true for the ecosystem and true for the people of the World.


Join the Organic Revolution and let's put them down!
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