“Food given by another person is only a throat tickler,” says an old proverb of the Maori, the original inhabitants of New Zealand. “But food gained by the labor of one’s own hand is the food which satisfies.”
Last week, Scientific American observed that “Genetically modified (GM) crops have spread faster in the past decade than any agricultural technology since the plow.”
“Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true,” quipped the philosopher Bertrand Russell some years ago.
The re-election of Alvaro Uribe as Colombia’s president on Sunday is good news for the United States and good news for free trade. But there are also many worrying trends in Latin America--and events in the coming weeks will determine quite a bit about our country’s political and economic relationship with the entire region.