In PLOS Biology, a UK geneticist offers some wise suggestions on how to move beyond the simplistic frames that dominate agriculture and the GMO discourse. She writes: First, it is necessary to move on from the well-worn logical fallacy that anything natural is good, and anything unnatural is bad. The application of this fallacy to agriculture…Continue Reading…
A straightforward definition from Wikipedia: Green revolution refers to to a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1960s, that increased agriculture production worldwide, particularly in the developing world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s. The initiatives, led by Norman Borlaug, the “Father of the Green Revolution” credited with…Continue Reading…
You won’t find any “green” tributes to the father of the “green revolution.” That’s a shame, but not surprising. What’s shocking are many of the comments from so-called progressives at the Huffington post. One disgusted reader scanning the mass display of moronic ignorance nails it: Environmentalists attacking Borlaug’s work are like creationists attacking Darwin’s work,…Continue Reading…
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