Todays Prize
Posted by Chris Samuel on Oct 17th, 2006
2006
Oct 17
Today’s prize is for excessive political hyperbole and goes to John Cobb of the National Party.
He criticised the Australia Institute’s statement that perhaps assuming that being able to farm anywhere in a naturally drought stricken country isn’t such a bright idea by describing their attitude as:
agrarian genocide
I’m not quite sure how reconsidering our attitudes to farming in this country equates with mass murder.
October 18th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
It’s not a new term, but it sounds like it’s been misapropriated from Juli Brussel who wrote about the state of US farming in 2001: