[ShareTompkins] The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture: new essay by Colin Tudge on ISN

[A Wilson]

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Published Today on ISN: The Founding Fables of Industrialised  
Agriculture

Independent Science News today published “The Founding Fables of  
Industrialised Agriculture [1]” by Colin Tudge, writer and co-founder  
of The Campaign for Real Farming [2] and the College for Enlightened  
Agriculture [3].

Article synopsis: Industrial agriculture “is a far bigger threat to  
humanity than North Korea or “terrorism”, or the collapse of banks or  
dwindling oil”. Responsible for, among other things, climate change,  
water pollution, ill health, and the destruction of soils, small-scale  
farming, and rural communities, it has been sold to the public on a  
series of mythological propositions. Principal among these myths are  
monoculture agriculture’s “high yields and efficiency”, smallholder  
farming’s “inadequacy”, and the “food productivity crisis”.  
Journalists, politicians, and especially academics, propagate these  
myths — apparently unaware of their contradiction by evidence.  
Demolishing these myths and halting the march of industrial farming,  
therefore, “is the cause of our age….whatever else we may aspire to  
do, agriculture is the thing we absolutely have to get right.”

The article can be read in its entirety at Independent Science News: http://www.independentsciencenews.org/un-sustainable-farming/the-founding-fables-of-industrialised-agriculture/ 
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Colin Tudge is author of So Shall We Reap and many other books about  
agriculture.
His latest book (highly recommended by the Bioscience Resource  
Project) Good Food for Everyone Forever: A people’s takeover of the  
food supply [4]expands on the topics covered in “The Founding Fables  
of Industrialised Agriculture [1]“. Eloquent and to the point, Tudge  
clarifies what is wrong with industrial agriculture and what is needed  
for a switch to enlightened farming — farming designed specifically to  
feed good food to everyone forever.

Article printed from Bioscience Resource Project: http://www.bioscienceresource.org

URL to article: http://www.bioscienceresource.org/2013/10/published-today-on-isn-the-founding-fables-of-industrialised-agriculture/

URLs in this post:

[1] The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture: http://www.independentsciencenews.org/un-sustainable-farming/the-founding-fables-of-industrialised-agriculture/
[2] The Campaign for Real Farming: http://www.campaignforrealfarming.org/
[3] College for Enlightened Agriculture: http://www.campaignforrealfarming.org/the-college/
[4] Good Food for Everyone Forever: A people’s takeover of the food  
supply : http://www.paripublishing.com/en/books/goodfood/book

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Allison Wilson, PhD
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The Bioscience Resource Project

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