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[Petro]

On Sunday, January 6, 2002, at 10:42 PM, Anonymous wrote:
>
>    The agit/prop that we *need* herbicides to produce enough food is
> patently absurd. They didn't even exiest 50 years ago, and most farmers

	50 years ago most farmers weren't getting anywhere near the crop 
yields they are today.

> in the world still don't use them. Only the chemically dependant

	Most farmers who don't use them are lucky to feed themselves and 
their families, much less whole other nations.

> brainwashed, braindead amerikan farmer does, which is why he's quickly
> becoming extinct.

	No, he's becoming extinct because (1) The federal government is 
more than willing to pay many of them not to grow food and (b) He's 
getting bought out by the corporate farm companies, which are far more 
efficient and use herbicides, pesticides, genetic manipulation, and 
fertilizer.

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