Rafael Fajardo

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.