<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0E511A"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">New from</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#171EFF"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"> </font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#171EFF"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">Independent Science News</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">:</font></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">America: Becoming a Land Without Farmers</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">by Evaggelos Vallianatos</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">at</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" color="#0011f2" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 17, 242); "><a href="http://independentsciencenews.org/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">http://independentsciencenews.org</font></a></font><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">/</font></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">Synopsis:</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">The division of the United States of America into the 1% and the 99% is not confined to cities and suburbs. The official statistics don't readily show it but in rural America family farms continue to disappear as increasingly food is produced by small numbers of very large farms. The effects of this inequality are felt as a grave economic crisis. The </font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">emerging rural economy is characterised by depopulation, dilapidation, and a feudal social structure that is fundamentally undemocratic. </font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><i>Please forward, post, distribute, tweet, like, link to, and recommend this important article, if you can.</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; ">Apologies for any cross-posting</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; ">Yours sincerely</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; ">Jonathan</font></div><br><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Jonathan Latham (PhD)</div><div>Executive Director</div><div>The Bioscience Resource Project</div><div><a href="mailto:jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org">jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org</a></div><div>001-607-319-0279</div><div><div>Skype: jonathanlatham2</div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://independentsciencenews.org/">http://independentsciencenews.org/ </a></div></div><div>and</div><div><a href="http://www.bioscienceresource.org/">http://www.bioscienceresource.org/</a></div><div><br></div></div><div>Mail: PO Box 6869</div><div>Ithaca 14851 NY</div><div>USA</div><div><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"Good with Science"</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></div></body></html>