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A comment on Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to an economic disaster.

Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by gibspaulding on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:13AM (#28444348)
This is really sad to see. This seems like a potentially good idea (long term) that was horribly executed. Reminds me of the Munich Linux fiasco [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by spaetzleesser on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:43AM (#28444731)
I don’t think Munich is a good example. From what I know things were working reasonably well but Microsoft muscled their way back in with a lot of money and lobbying. If anything Munich is a warning that businesses will do whatever they can to obstruct progress if it doesn’t make money for them.

If there was a broad movement towards organic farming I would expect a similar thing: corporations will put out a lot of propaganda and buy off politicians to stop this.

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