From: To: Bcc: Subject: Date: Attachments: Inline-Images: Gregory Brown] undisclosed-recipients., [email protected] Greg Brown's Weekend Reading and Other Things.... 07/13/2014 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 01:09:04 +0000 2013_REPORT_CARD_for_AMERICA_ASCE_June_29,_2014.docx; Americans_Think_We_Have_the_World's_Best_College_s„We_Don1u2019t„Kevin_Came y_NYT_June_28,2014.docx; As_Iraq_fractures_Kurds_find_best_opportunity_yet_to_gain_leverage_ABIGAIL_HAUSL OHNER & BEN VAN HEUVELEN July_4,2014.docx; The_NevV_17,4ap_or:the_Tv1iddle Eastfeffrey_Goldberg_The_Atlantic_July_19,2014.docx; U.S._Seen_as_Biggest_Oil_Proilucer_After_Overtaking_Saudi_Arabia_Grant_Smith_Bloo mburg_July_4,2014.docx; 5_ofthe_biggest_corporate_fines_ever_WSLOctober_19„2014.docx; Eileen_Ford_diesm,her_agency_set_standards_for_the_modeling_industry_LA_Times_Jul y_11,2014.docx image.png; image(1).png; image(2).png; image(3).png; image(4).png; image(5).png DEAR FRIEND I had heard of Dr. Vandana Shiva but never paid much attention and only remembered her because of tilaka on her forehead and her distinctive Indian manner of dress. Then earlier this week I came across an article — The Surprising Leading Contributor to Pollution: Agriculture - by Dr. Joseph Mercola who on first glance looked like a huckster of Indian organic herbal supplements. Except that on this blog he had a web link to a talk that Dr. Vandana Shiva gave earlier this year at the Food Otherwise conference in the Netherlands on why we need another food system another agriculture system. As background to my reading/research for interesting items to cover on Weekly Offerings, I let it play. Dr. Vandana Shiva's premise is that we need another food system because the current one was never meant to be — "every tool of the current system was designed for war." WOW "Pesticides were designed for the concentration camps. The early generation. Then they were designed for biological warfare and chemical warfare. " WOW again.