How #organic crops can crash — and still never fail [with updated fraud]

mem_somerville
8 min readJan 5, 2022

Despite massive failures and extensive fraud, people still think some miracle of smaller yields will save the planet

Numerous headlines lately described a frightening scenario: during a global pandemic, the food security of Sri Lanka was put at risk, apparently by a neo-Lysenko plan to switch the country to organic production.

NYTimes article on Dec 7 2021 about the turn to organic farming

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mem_somerville

Mary Mangan PhD is a genomics scientist, with credentials in microbiology, immunology, plant cell biology, and and molecular biology.