Friday, December 14, 2018
THIRD WORLD AGRICULTURE BAIROCH
The Economic Development of the Third World since 1900
He makes some important observations I never thought about.
Why has third world agriculture, not even to get into third world industrial development, been so problematic?
Some problems have to do with vegetarianism itself, normally associated with religious systems, and its tendency to keep people at or near a subsistence level for various reasons versus animal husbandry and its associated advantages.
Many people nowadays will try to tell you that vegetarianism is good for you and good for the planet, and there are elements of truth to that, but they miss Bairoch's arguments completely.
Additionally and catastrophically, he criticized very early what was then called the green revolution, already seeing where it was heading.
It later has turned into a horrific monster with Monsanto and corporate control of vastly reduced numbers of strains of crops, and built in pesticides, re genetically modified products.
It has been a truly horrific development, originally started by Western market capitalism and its philanthropy to feed a hungry enormous and bloated world population, so to speak, Arthur Daniels Midland, Monsanto, Dow, Etc.
Now it's even Microsoft, Bill Gates, Mr thousand dollar third world toilet, advertising AI to feed a hungry world with high tech.....
See Bairoch's Chapter on Agriculture.
He makes some important observations I never thought about.
Why has third world agriculture, not even to get into third world industrial development, been so problematic?
Some problems have to do with vegetarianism itself, normally associated with religious systems, and its tendency to keep people at or near a subsistence level for various reasons versus animal husbandry and its associated advantages.
Many people nowadays will try to tell you that vegetarianism is good for you and good for the planet, and there are elements of truth to that, but they miss Bairoch's arguments completely.
Additionally and catastrophically, he criticized very early what was then called the green revolution, already seeing where it was heading.
It later has turned into a horrific monster with Monsanto and corporate control of vastly reduced numbers of strains of crops, and built in pesticides, re genetically modified products.
It has been a truly horrific development, originally started by Western market capitalism and its philanthropy to feed a hungry enormous and bloated world population, so to speak, Arthur Daniels Midland, Monsanto, Dow, Etc.
Now it's even Microsoft, Bill Gates, Mr thousand dollar third world toilet, advertising AI to feed a hungry world with high tech.....
See Bairoch's Chapter on Agriculture.
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