Text only version
Agriculture is at a crossroads. After 4000 years of farming, agriculture has become industrialised in just 50 years - its yields increasingly reliant not on management of local resources, but on pesticides, factory farming of animals, and other intensive farming practices that damage the countryside.
This industrialisation has come at substantial cost to both human health and the environment. And the same agrochemical companies that made their name through the production of the chemicals sprayed on our fields and the hormones fed to our animals are now proposing a 'solution' to the problem of their own creation: it has been called the Gene Revolution. They argue that GM crops will reduce dependence on their own damaging pesticides.
