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Wendell Berry on the promise of GMOs to ‘feed the world’ 2

“The inevitable aim of industrial agri-investors is the big universal solution. They want a big product that can be marketed everywhere. And the kind of agriculture we’re talking about that leads to food security and land conservation is locally adapted agriculture. And they can’t do that. Industrial agriculture plants cornfields in Arizona; locally adapted agriculture says, what can we fit in this place that will not destroy it? Or what can nature help us to do here? That’s the critical issue.”

—Wendell Berry, responding to a question about GMOs from The Washington Post’s Jane Black

Grist food editor Tom Philpott farms and cooks at Maverick Farms, a sustainable-agriculture nonprofit and small farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Follow my Twitter feed; contact me at tphilpott[at]grist[dot]org.

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  1. Javaman Posted 6:24 am
    22 Jul 2009

    “The inevitable aim of industrial agri-investors is the big universal solution."-to make money "They want a big product that can be marketed everywhere."-to make money "And the kind of agriculture we’re talking about that leads to food security and land conservation is locally adapted agriculture.And they can’t do that."-if they did, we wouldn't make money"Industrial agriculture plants cornfields in Arizona; locally adapted agriculture says, what can we fit in this place that will not destroy it? Or what can nature help us to do here? That’s the critical issue.”-all so we can make moneyThe bullshit meter is pegging.

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