Have you ever stopped to ask yourself how corporate propaganda is constantly trying to colonize the future? We'd like UC Merced, our own "high-tech, bio-tech engine of growth" right here in Merced CA to assign its best academic minds to explaining to us ordinary citizens what the future actually is so that the public might be in a better position to judge the claims of the endless stream of corporate flak about the future. For example, should the public take out a patent on the future before it is as cluttered with proprietary brands as outer space is cluttered with satellites?

Badlands Journal editorial board

9-22-09

Huffington Post

New Big Ag Push to Fight World Hunger Misses What Organic Ag Is Already Doing
Timothy LaSalle, CEO Rodale Institute
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-lasalle/new-big-ag-push-to-fight_b_295082.html

The compelling humanitarian goals expressed today at the corporately sponsored Global Harvest Initiative symposium were laudable, as were some of the hunger-relief projects cited. Missing, however, was an honest assessment of the limits of dead-end chemical agriculture to play a leading role in actually feeding people.