Cost of "Anti-industry" propaganda and the need for busting myths and half-truths
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| Publisher | Milling & Grain |
| Year of publication | 2018 April |
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| Medium | Digital |
| Edition | 1 |
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| Scope & content | Continuing from my last column, let me explain the costs of negative propaganda that is spread by people and organisations with vested interests. Diversity in this world is the primary reason for the very existence of the human species. Diversity in culture, social norms, rules, language, food, culinary preferences, crops grown and ideologies. Here ideologies are critical, and one must understand the differences in perspectives that form belief systems in every culture and race. Asian cultures are typically hierarchical and bound by strong social norms. Often individual choices and preferences are overruled by societal expectations or norms. But this is not the case of Western cultures. All these factors influence how people perceive and respond to information. Of late, we have seen many ideologies are borrowed as such from Western countries, which are nowhere close to the realities – social, economical, cultural, and political – in Asia. One of such borrowed ideology is about “Utopian green” agriculture wherein people want to take precautionary (often negative and time-consuming) perspective towards any new technology but expect agriculture to continue to feed the growing population with affordable, safe and nutritious food. Read more… |