It is always
surprising how many people think that the changes that have taken place in
agriculture in the past generation or two are the natural effect of some
immutable law of agricultural economics... There may indeed be imperatives that
will determine the look of agriculture - but they will be the product of
biological, not economic, law. An
economic system is only a way of organizing productive resources so that they
accomplish economic purposes. It is a
function of custom, culture, and social values - but it is not above the laws
of ecology. We cannot have any kind of
agriculture we want; our agriculture must conform to biological law. But we can have the kind of agricultural
economy we want.
Marty Strange - The Economic Structure of a Sustainable Agriculture - 1985
Anything else to say, folks? On with it now!
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