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Norman Pagett and Josephine Smit : Grain of Truth
Image from UCL. Grain of truth:Our precarious food supply Global food production has been allowed to fall into the hands of fewer and fewer megacorporations, and their aims are simple: to deliver short-term profits and ultimately to control the entire … Continue reading
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Memo from the Blackland Prairie : Obama and the Texas Family Farm
Blackland Prairie. Image from Texas Parks and Wildlife.Subsistence farming and big agribusiness:Obama stops the massive subsidies By Jane Leatherman Van Praag / The Rag Blog / March 18, 2010 I live on and manage our family farm just south of … Continue reading
















