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「才情（有才氣）仔飛上天，憨慢（憨厚、笨拙）仔留身邊」這是閩南地區鄉下的老人家口裡時常說的話，這樣的故事也從不止息的在這些地區上演，巧的是，我們的重大政策，正有系統化、組織性的的促成這種哀愁擴散。
這是流傳很久的一句台灣俗語：才情（有才氣）的飛上天，憨慢（憨厚、笨拙）的留身邊。這句話在描述的是當時鄉村的普遍現象，意思是說，聰明的、有才幹的、書讀的好的子女，很快的就會離開鄉下，飛上高天，而那些比較愚笨的，沒有什麼才氣，不會唸書的，就留在鄉下父母的身邊，繼續務農，幹粗活過日，而這些「憨慢」的子女，往往就負擔起照顧父母的責任。
網址 http://usfoodcrisisgroup.org/node/15
「在全球耕地有限，人口越來越多的情況下」科學技術（不一定是植物工廠）有其發展的必要性。全球耕地不但有限，而且還在快速地縮減當中（您可以參閱「看守世界」Gary Cardner 著，華立仁翻譯的《縮減中的田地-世界八十億人的耕地損耗》），目前任何可以解決糧食生產的方法，都有嘗試的必要。
然而，根據 IAASTD（International Assessment of Agriculture Knowledge, Science and Technology Development）的研究結論，它說「Sustainable farming is the way to go. To feed the world we need to support diverse, local, family farms that work with nature.」，科學的在解決糧食安全上的參與，「往常的商業思維（business as usual）」不是當中的選項。植物工廠的整體思維還是在資本邏輯裡頭運轉，並沒有考量到整個食物生產的同時，還需要兼顧到生物多樣性、永續環境、氣候變遷...等等的面向。
[Original: La Via Campesina]
Back ground paper
Current global modes of production, consumption and trade have caused massive environmental destruction including global warming that is putting at risk our planet’s ecosystems and pushing human communities into disasters. Global warming shows the effects of a development model based on capital concentration, high fossil energy consumption, overproduction, consumerism and trade liberalization. Global warming has been taking place for decades, but most governments have refused to deal with its roots and causes. It has been only recently, once transnational coporations have been able to set up huge money-making schemes, that we hear about possible solutions designed and controlled by big companies, and backed up by governemnts. Farmers - men and women - around the world are joining hands with other social movements, organizations, people and communities to ask for and to develop radical social, economic and political transformations to reverse the current trend.