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Many of us are passionate about electric cars: after all, even if they cost a lot (they say, for now), they make us feel very ecological friends of Greta. Then, since they cost so much, they are just as luxurious as they are to transform them into a status symbol: of the series, “I’m an … continua a leggere
Historical revisionism is out of fashion, but we are in great need of it, perhaps where we least expect it: for example to understand contemporary agriculture. Some really interesting essays are in fact demolishing the myth of the Green Revolution, pride of the agro-industrial system, starting from the second half of the XX Century: a … continua a leggere
Do you remember when GM crop promoters ensured that the spread of engineered crops would eliminate the use of pesticides? A decade has passed and now we learn, from the gigantic struggle underway to conquer the Chinese market of transgenic soya, that things have not really gone so… GMOs don’t work against weeds The news … continua a leggere
When we talked about the social question about the yellow vests, a careful reader of Anglo-Saxon area asked us what we meant by this expression. Social issue today, what does that mean? The question initially caught us because in continental Europe social issue or soziale Frage are well-known terms in reference to the effects of … continua a leggere
source: https://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/18623-father-of-green-revolution-in-india-slams-gm-crops-as-unsustainable-and-unsafe The plant geneticist and World Food Prize winner M.S. Swaminathan is known as the “father of the Green Revolution in India”, since he helped introduce into the country a new US-influenced agricultural movement focusing on modern high-yield varieties of wheat and rice – and their accompanying pesticides and fertilizers. “No doubt” that GM … continua a leggere