Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Earl Butz, postscript


Corn harvest, Minnesota 2005
Photo from rsgreen89's flickr stream


The man arguably most closely identified with modern industrial agriculture (at least in the U.S.) died in his sleep on February 2. Memorials are predictably very divergent in tone, from those extolling to those decrying the changes wrought under his reign as Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Nixon and Ford.

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