Excerpted from the book, Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture, edited by Andrew Kimbrell, public interest attorney, activist and author. The book takes an unprecedented look at our current ecologically destructive agricultural system and offers a compelling vision for an organic and environmentally safer way of producing the food we eat.

It is no more business as usual. No use beating around the bush.

Let us come to the point. What is the point?

PER HECTARE PRODUCTION OF FOOD GRAINS IS DECREASING.

There are several compelling reasons why Homa Organic Farming is superior to all other forms of agriculture.

In January, 1997, Roger Subotnik and I traveled to Panama to introduce Homa Therapy as a means to combat the plant disease Black Sigatoka. This leaf fungus attacks banana and plantain crops, and has killed thousands of acres of plantain trees in Venezuela and Colombia. Stronger and stronger fungicides have been used to fight the disease, and some success has been achieved for a while. But eventually a point is reached when the only chemicals capable of killing the fungus are also deadly to man. Hundreds of farmers in South America have abandoned their farms due to the devastation caused by this disease.