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...research on chemical disinfectants, he found that the crop sprays used by large Midwestern land owners caused cancer in chickens. It turns out that about half of the chickens we eat have cancer in their bodies, or maybe it's a third in Massachusetts. Cancerous chicken tissue is supposed to cause brain lesions in dogs and cats...
...Inducing substantial migration" means terror bombing, defoliation, napalm, destruction of villages, crop destruction, and assassination. It has nothing in common with movement to cities in classical capitalist development, generated by the development of market and productive forces (although that is violent enough). It has even less in common with a rational allocation of resources for the simultaneous development of city and country. "Urbanization" is used by Huntington as an index of modernization. In fact, it refers to little more than the number of people in cities, without regard for the economic viability of those cities or the conditions...
...foremen. While U.F.W.O.C. leaders called the contract "a shot in the arm," the Inter-Harvest contract angered the remaining growers, some of whom were letting acres of vegetables rot. Yet the Salinas Valley vegetable growers lost the goal that the Teamsters agreement had sought: keeping the U.F.W.O.C. a one-crop union...
...impact of the corn blight lies in the future. Country banks, equipment dealers, and others who have made loans to corn farmers, may be unable to collect. Businessmen in small towns will suffer. The retail price of starch and corn syrup-products derived from the 15% of the corn crop not used for feed-will rise almost immediately; corn oil probably will not because it competes directly with cotton and soybean oil. The five-month supply of corn held by the Commodity Credit Corp. should also help limit price rises...
Major seed producers say that there will be sufficient resistant seed supplies for next year's crop. For this year, all that farmers can do is pray for a spell of cool drought in the corn belt. If the weather changes, says Dr. George W. Irving, head of the Agricultural Research Service, "the impact of the disease on the total crop could be slight." The next two weeks will be the crucial time...