Re: ANTI-CROP BIOTERRORISM SYMPOSIUM, AUGUST 1999

kathryn marsh (kmarsh@iol.ie)
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 17:48:36 +0100

>colibri@west.net (Beth von Gunten) wrote:
>>I would like some thoughts on how MONOCROPPING was and is responsible for
>disease epidemics such as the Irish Potato Famine. Would diversifying crops
>prevent possibility of bioterrorism?
>
>seaseal@got.net
>
There is a level beyond which diversification can't help that much. The
novelist John Christopher wrote a sci-fi in the 60s called "The death of
grass". Think about it.

kathryn

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