Eco-agriculture — an idea that makes “uncommon good sense” — is no longer an underground movement
Editor’s note: This is a portion of an address given by Charles Walters, founder of Acres U.S.A., in 1991, in which Walters highlights his dream that life will emerge as the ultimate objective of our nation.
This and many other conference talks by Charles Walters and other Acres U.S.A. luminaries — whose messages are just as true, helpful and inspirational now as back then — are now available through an Acres U.S.A. membership. Memberships also include the magazine and discounts on our books, online courses and events. Visit eco-farming.com to learn more.
Twenty years ago, in my promotional letter [for the first issue of Acres U.S.A. magazine], I said, “Look, people — do you really think that the same agencies that lied to you through their teeth about economics, turned around and told you the truth about technology? Do you really think that happened?” Horrors of horrors, did I catch it from that! There’s one professor down at the University of Oklahoma who used to go into a frothing rage if Acres was mentioned by one of his students.
Some of the people I knew positively rolled in the aisle with laughter. How could toxic technology possibly be wrong? Earl Butts was telling everybody that without chemicals, 50 million people would starve, and we better get busy picking who the 50 million would be. What greater good could there possibly be in this world than to keep people from starving?
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