{"id":618,"date":"2014-10-26T09:34:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T13:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=618"},"modified":"2014-10-26T09:34:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T13:34:46","slug":"oxford-real-farming-conference-power-lies-and-the-need-for-agrarian-resistance-opendemocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Real Farming Conference: power, lies, and the need for agrarian resistance | openDemocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/ourkingdom\/colin-tudge\/oxford-real-farming-conference-power-lies-and-need-for-agrarian-resistance\">Oxford Real Farming Conference: power, lies, and the need for agrarian resistance | openDemocracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><span class=\"wysiwyg_imageupload image imgupl_floating_none 0\" style=\"float: none; display: table; text-align: left; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 4px 4px 0px 4px; margin: 0px auto 0px auto; border: 1px solid #cccccc;\"><a class=\"lightbox-processed\" style=\"color: #0061bf; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/dy1m18dp41gup.cloudfront.net\/cdn\/farfuture\/7m1HleTByzws_Ocf8jpsqpdZiK4XmbForBtZo0oGzFg\/mtime:1414143705\/files\/imagecache\/wysiwyg_imageupload_lightbox_preset\/wysiwyg_imageupload\/553846\/parsnips3-617x409.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imagecache wysiwyg_imageupload 0 imagecache imagecache-article_xlarge\" style=\"border-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: scroll !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-position: 0px 0px !important; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-width: medium !important; padding: 0px !important;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dy1m18dp41gup.cloudfront.net\/cdn\/farfuture\/dlK7kP4m7VxAo4R9AlMikZQAeeAOzWXo8N8q2XXdJNk\/mtime:1414143457\/files\/imagecache\/article_xlarge\/wysiwyg_imageupload\/553846\/parsnips3-617x409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><span class=\"image_meta\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 1em; font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"image_title\" style=\"font-size: 0.857em;\">thecommunityfarm.co.uk<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\">The sad state of Britain\u2019s dairying has the same root cause as the billion worldwide who are undernourished, the billion who are overweight and\/or diabetic or in danger of heart disease, global warming, the mass extinction of our fellow creatures: global agriculture, and indeed a global economy, that is geared not to the wellbeing of humankind and of the planet but to short-term wealth, in the simplistic belief that money\u00a0<em>per se\u00a0<\/em>is good and can solve all our problems no matter how it is produced or what it is used for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\">To put things right we have to think deeply \u2013 in fact re-think from first principles \u2013 and act radically.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><strong>The lies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\">The world\u2019s global strategy of food and farming is founded on three great untruths \u2013 lies, in effect &#8212; which between them are threatening to kill us all, and in practice are well on the way to doing so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><strong>Lie no. 1<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is that the world needs 50% more food by 2050, and will need 100% more by 2100. This provides the excuse for the agrochemical\/ biotech companies to focus ever more energetically on productivity.<\/p>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford Real Farming Conference: power, lies, and the need for agrarian resistance | openDemocracy. thecommunityfarm.co.uk The sad state of Britain\u2019s dairying has the same root cause as the billion worldwide who are undernourished, the billion who are overweight and\/or diabetic or in danger of heart disease, global warming, the mass extinction of our fellow creatures: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,299,362,366],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-agriculture","tag-farming","tag-global-agriculture","tag-global-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}