A short but very interesting item was recently broadcast on Radio 4’s Today programme. The report highlighted a disaster in the production of corn, wheat and soya beans in the US. This was not because of the widespread recent drought, but an additional man-made disaster which may have longer-lasting impact, writes Michael Burke in the Socialist Economic Bulletin.
In effect, large US farmers have been encouraged to adopt genetically modified strains of the seed varieties for these different (...)
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Improving Yields and Destroying the Environment
21 October 2012, by Peter Shield