SOC349H5 Lecture Notes - Oligopoly, Neoliberalism, List Of Gasoline Additives
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Farms are getting subsides by the government, and the owners have another job for income, they don"t have money to support themselves. Green revolution: coined in 1960s when scientists developing new wheat varieties, 60s time of scientific boom, varieties of wheat, produced more with agricultural chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers, had to be used with new chemicals. Money was invested in agricultural chemical research, period after ww2, companies developing chemical pesticides were the same chemical weapons. When western scientists were developing this, they were exporting these ideas, asia, Corn, wheat, rice are not green manner reading. People are excited because they can feed hungry people over the years due to the increase in production. Problematic idea, lots to due with power and amount of food. Pesticide: reliant about the pesticide, moving from traditional to loss of traditional knowledge. Farmers in india to commit mass suicide (1,500) imposed from the west, to governments to incent their farmers to use these techniques.
