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Busting The Myths
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Busting The Myths of Industrial Agriculture
Agribusiness has consistently come up with strategies to try to blunt, and ultimately defeat, the growing opposition to industrial food. One very effective strategy is the "big lie" technique. For decades we have seen multimillion dollar campaigns purveying various myths about the purported benefits of industrialized agriculture. Unfortunately, many of these myths - such as industrial food is cheap and safe - are now generally accepted as true. Fatal Harvest specifically identifies the seven most popular and egregious "lies" of agribusiness and fully debunks them, an important contribution to all activists working on these issues.
No Farmers No Food No Future
Parched Industrial Farmland
The Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture:
  1. Industrial Agriculture Will Feed the World
  2. Industrial Food Is Safe, Healthy, and Nutritious
  3. Industrial Food Is Cheap
  4. Industrial Agriculture Is Efficient
  5. Industrial Food Offers More Choices
  6. Industrial Agriculture Benefits the Environment and Wildlife
  7. Biotechnology Will Solve the Problems of Industrial Agriculture

Read the full essay for the second myth,
"Industrial Food is Safe, Healthy, and Nutritious"

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