{"id":22909,"date":"2012-09-25T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/moreover-the-growth-of-high-input-technologies\/"},"modified":"2012-09-25T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T12:29:00","slug":"moreover-the-growth-of-high-input-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/moreover-the-growth-of-high-input-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Moreover, the growth of high-input technologies like GE seeds have been participants in the rapid intertwining of food and oil \u2013 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 \u2013 and when oil and food prices are intertwined, the world\u2019s poor, who already spend 60% or more of their income on food, are most vulnerable. Food security for the world\u2019s poor depends on breaking those ties, not on increasing them<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/casaubonsbook\/2012\/09\/24\/50-years-after-silent-spring\/\">Sharon Astyk<\/a> at <em>Casaubon\u2019s Book<\/em>.\u00a050 Years After Silent Spring (via <a href=\"http:\/\/protoslacker.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">protoslacker<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>See Also: Daniel Suarez&rsquo;s second novel makes an interesting attempt to wrap this point of view in a parable of control and resistance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moreover, the growth of high-input technologies like GE seeds have been participants in the rapid intertwining of food and oil \u2013 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 \u2013 and when oil and food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5Xv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}