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From the Green Revolution to GMOs: Toxic Agriculture Is the Problem Not the Solution
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A type of agriculture that is responsible for undermining essential biodiversity, human health and diverse, nutritious diets.
The authors noted the catastrophic impacts on the environment, human health and society in general.
The detrimental health impacts there as a result of the widespread use of Roundup are now well documented along with the displacement of indigenous peasant agriculture to make way for commodity monocropping agro-exports.
In fact, in Punjab, the cradle of the Green Revolution in India, this ‘green dream’ has turned into a toxic environmental and human health nightmare.
It does so without GM and could do so agroecologically without synthetic chemicals – without ‘nuking’ nature and without destroying human health.
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