Industrial agriculture is killing us - literally

By Libby

I'm reluctantly linking to this open letter to Hillary Clinton by Linn Cohen-Cole even though I think it's unfair in laying the blame solely at the Clinton's feet, because she brings up some critically important points on Monsanto, GM foods and monolithic agricultural practices in a really well researched piece. Here's the money graf.

Cattle bloated by steroids, lapse and loss of 10,000 year old normal seeds [here], immense pollution from factory farms [here], deadly-disease-ridden feed, world-wide bee colony collapse, poisoned soil and depleted water supplies, Superweeds, lawsuits against farmers, loss of family farms, and … India farmers killing themselves in what may be the largest mass suicide in recorded human history (on average … one farmer suicide every 30 minutes since 2002 - The Hindu 1.30.08) - that is industrial agriculture.

Like everything else the corporatocracy has sold us as a panacea to some problem, the only real benefit is to the corporate bottom line and the ultimate price we'll pay for buying the snake oil they're selling is worldwide devastation and premature extinction.