One of our regular contributors, my old friend Pete Larson, who many of you had the pleasure of seeing perform at this site’s 10th anniversary party a few weeks ago, is going to be speaking in Ann Arbor on Thursday about the financialization of agricultural commodities. I took the occasion to ask him a few […]
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Pete Larson on the financialization of agricultural commodities
Posted in Agriculture, Economics Also tagged agricultural commodities, Agriculture, big ag, College Truth Tour, commoditization, Cuba, deregulation, derivatives, Dodd-Frank, economic crash, financial industry, financial reform, food prices, healthy food access, hedge funds, Herman Cain, Howard Stein, human rights, Joe Stiglitz, New World Ecology and Agriculture Group, NWEAG, Pete Larson, pork, Richard Levins, Science For the People, scientists, speculation, stock market, supply and demand, sustainable agriculture, University of Michigan, Wall Street 14 Comments
The Survival Seed scam
Last night, on my way home from work, I was listening to our resident rightwing radio personality Thayrone X, which I occasionally do when I find myself becoming too optimistic about humanity’s chances, when a commercial came on about the importance of heirloom, non-genetically modified seeds. For a second, I thought that perhaps I’d stumbled […]
Posted in Economics, Food, Media, Observations, Politics Also tagged crisis gardens, fear mongering, genetically modified organism, Glenn Beck, gold, Goldline International, heirloom seeds, police state, scams, seed banks, seeds, Solutions From Science, Survival Seed Bank, taking advantage of the scared, taking advantage of the stupid, Thayrone, totalitarianism, victory gardens 38 Comments