Posted on 03/13/2021 11:13:50 AM PST by artichokegrower
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Maywa Montenegro de Wit joined the UC Santa Cruz faculty this past July, amidst the global coronavirus pandemic, and that experience has guided her work in some important new directions.
Montenegro de Wit’s research focuses on the intersection of agroecology, food sovereignty, and biotechnology. But this past year, she undertook a new project to document the role of the food system in the pandemic and explore how lessons from the abolition movement could position agroecology to bring about transformative change.
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Yes let's follow the model of Stalin and Lysenco and get rid of capitalist agriculture and move to collective farms. No pandemics in the future as most people will starve to death.
Well, it does seem to solve the pandemics problem, so what is the problem?
“intersection of agroecology, food sovereignty, and biotechnology”
Food sovereignty requires you actively grow your own food. The tray of dry dead pepper sprouts in the next room reminds me how difficult and fragile that is (miss one day of watering...). Food sovereignty requires a level of commitment & involvement few are willing to sacrifice for; intersecting agroecology and biotechnology therewith isn’t going to make that sacrifice less for most people.
Pandemics stem from excessive human interaction. Progressive solution is to reduce the number of humans available to interact.
The fake pandemic is paying more totalitarian dividends by the day!
Why didn’t we think of this years ago instead of wasting our time with the global warming scam?
Awaiting the Soup Nazi’s “No soup for you!”
Critical farm studies. It worked so well in the Ukraine in the 1920's...
This makes the Gorebull warming schemes look like child play!
“vertical integration”
Nothing can be more vertically integrated than the government running everything from turning the soil to checking you out at the food store.
We went to Biosphere 2 down by Phoenix. It was a massive failure and proved this stuff does not work.
bring about transformative change. another nicely wrapped gift box with sh## inside. Everything these days needs transformative change we survived for 245 years and these idiot pukes want to impose transformative change on us because of injustice and in equality, F THEM! plain and simple
Woulda liked to see that. Fascinating project, wonderful idealism, educational failure.
George: All right, no more lies. Elaine is been chosen to represent the Upper West Side in the next Biosphere project.
Vivian: I haven’t heard anything about another Biosphere.
George: That’s because it’s underwater.
Vivian: This is insane.
George: Is it?
Vivian: Yes it it.
George: Well, it’s all for charity, so what’s the difference.
Montenegro de Wit can get back to us when s/he can demonstrate having personally produced and lived on “intersection of agroecology, food sovereignty, and biotechnology”.
Growing up, my family grew half our own food on undeveloped land fertilized by horse manure - no “agroecology and biotechnology” involved.
Those without hands-on skin-in-the-game experience need butt out of telling others how their food should be grown.
Buzzwords, concocted ones at that.
Is there anyone in this nation with the name Smith, Jones, Johnson, Davis,
Longfellow, and a number of others anymore?
All these hair-brained “Ideas” seem to pop forth from people that seem
more like from a foreign planet than Earth.
A lot of the ideas have a connection to merit, but are very impractical
for contemporary life-styles. And that’s the problem. These
people are clueless how their ‘idea’ will impact the pubic.
Destroying the current food-chain, isn’t going to improve
anyone’s lifestyle.
I actually agree with some sort of food autonomy, but I also
know I’m not going to get it living in the city.
If capitslist and “racist” agriculture are such failures, why are so many people in inner cities so damn fat?
I’d take the racism of capitalism over the wokeness of assclown socialists any day of the week.
Ping!
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