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INFERIOR TECHNOLOGIES AND KILLER ZUCCHINIS

Very interesting perspectives on manufactured vs. handcrafted:
"With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, one of the qualities that allegedly makes a craft item superior became its demonstrable inferiority."

and transgenic vs. organic:
"Having failed to prove that "organic" produce was superior in any other way, its proponents have now turned to the argument that its superiority results from its being less well protected from competitors, which means that it is being produced in an agronomically inferior way."

and the shared origin of these distinctions, here at Butterflies and Wheels.