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To: LindyBill who wrote (7760)9/12/2003 4:48:56 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) of 793843
 
<<So we shouldn't encourage 3rd world farmers to sell us food because it would lead to them ruining their wilderness by opening more land for farming? But we know that increased productivity leads to the use of less land, not more.>>

Not really. If you look at South America you can see the opposite happened. When they were plowing with a mule and picking by hand they could only farm so much ground. When John Deere and IH sent salesmen down there in the 60s and 70s to sell them tractors and combines the locals really started clearing the land. Next year SA (Brazil and Argentina) will replace the US as the #1 soybean grower.
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