Archive for Category: "Agrarian"
Roadside GMO Corn
Defenders of GMOs get all excited that with GMOs, farmers don’t have to use all those nasty and dangerous pesticides. Organic farming isn’t just about stopping pesticides, but also feeding and nourishing the soil.
Le Père Vincent McNabb: The Church and the Land
C’est principalement à partir du théologien médiéval et du pape du renouveau de la doctrine sociale de l’Église, que le père Vincent McNabb a travaillé dans le secteur rural et énoncé un certain nombre de positions qui recoupaient celles des distributistes.
A Modest Proposal- Part II
Working together we can build a City of Virtue in what remains of a city Capitalism has assaulted, and left for dead.
A Modest Proposal Part I
There are myriad reasons for the residents of a community to redevelop unused property in their locality. Chiefly, citizen-led development and locally-owned small businesses are the bedrock of the tax base and the backbone of a stable, healthy economy.
A Problem With Over-Centralizing Production
For many decades, the laws of the USA have put the small farmer at a great disadvantage over the large farmer. The result of this has been the elimination of small local farms and the dependence of large segments of the population on the production of large centralized farms. What’s wrong with this?
Is Distributism Agrarianism?
The rise of major technologies came later, and the fact of their existence does not necessitate a Capitalist economy. They may very well have been used in a cooperative manner, and indeed they are today in certain places. Nevertheless what does Distributism have to say about the agrarianism in economy?
Wendell Berry and the Great Economy
Global economy seeks only to make things where they are cheapest and sell them where they are dearest. But this divorces producers and consumers and means that there can be no responsibility. Only the community can care for its environment, and for its young.