Moreover, the growth of high-input technologies like GE seeds have been participants in the rapid intertwining of food and oil – if your seeds require a million dollar grant and a full university research lab to produce it is food that is tightly tied to the price of oil – and when oil and food prices are intertwined, the world’s poor, who already spend 60% or more of their income on food, are most vulnerable. Food security for the world’s poor depends on breaking those ties, not on increasing them
Sharon Astyk at Casaubon’s Book. 50 Years After Silent Spring (via protoslacker)
See Also: Daniel Suarez’s second novel makes an interesting attempt to wrap this point of view in a parable of control and resistance.