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José Bové Comes To Town | 30 comments (30 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: José Bové Comes To Town (none / 1)

Running big, productivist farms. Cereals mostly, with here and there a "milk" factory or a pork/beef operation.

One of the aims of the PAC was always stated to be "defence of the small farmer", which meant "drastically reduce the number of farmers".

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 12:02:45 PM EST
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Re: José Bové Comes To Town (none / 1)

afew:

Running big, productivist farms.

With floating, migrant labour as in the "unsustainable farms in Southern Spain"?

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 12:05:58 PM EST
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Re: José Bové Comes To Town (none / 0)

With machines.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 12:18:31 PM EST
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Re: José Bové Comes To Town (4.00 / 2)

The "unsustainable", btw, referred principally to water resources.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 01:11:22 PM EST
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Re: José Bové Comes To Town (4.00 / 2)

Yes.

They call them "white fields" because the entire desert is covered in the white plastic of greenhouses.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 01:12:46 PM EST
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Re: José Bové Comes To Town (none / 1)

An irony of the Abdalajís tunnel disaster (a tunnel boring machine bored into an aquifier, drying the wells of a town above) was that much of the waters coming out of the tunnel... was used to fill up aquifiers down-valley depleted by irrigation.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 03:17:29 PM EST
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