Borlaug and his corporate colleagues use language and an unbridled faith in technological solutions to conceal and mislead. For example, he espouses "protecting nature with high-yield farming and forestry." But Oregon writer George Beres, responds, "In this area of lush forestry, I see that kind of linguistic subterfuge used regularly by lumber interests. It is part of public relations gimmickry."
Borlaug's op-ed appears at a time when organic farming has been growing by 20 percent in recent years in the United States. Mainstream America is starting to embrace food policies that are contrary to what Borlaug would prescribe for the Third World. Such practices are a return to the traditional farming that my Uncle Dale employed on our small family farm in Iowa before chemical farming was developed. It threatens factory farming.
Credible alternatives to Borlaug's "Green Revolution" are outlined by Frances Moore Lappe (author of "Diet for a Small Planet," l971) and her daughter Anna Lappe in their new book "Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet." The citizens of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a city of 2.5 million, under the leadership of the Worker's Party, decided that good food was a human right, rather than a matter of wealth. It is the only city in the capitalist world to make food security a right of citizenship.
Borlaug's op-ed appears at a time when organic farming has been growing by 20 percent in recent years in the United States. Mainstream America is starting to embrace food policies that are contrary to what Borlaug would prescribe for the Third World. Such practices are a return to the traditional farming that my Uncle Dale employed on our small family farm in Iowa before chemical farming was developed. It threatens factory farming.
Credible alternatives to Borlaug's "Green Revolution" are outlined by Frances Moore Lappe (author of "Diet for a Small Planet," l971) and her daughter Anna Lappe in their new book "Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet." The citizens of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a city of 2.5 million, under the leadership of the Worker's Party, decided that good food was a human right, rather than a matter of wealth. It is the only city in the capitalist world to make food security a right of citizenship.