Bette Hileman, in Chemical & En-gineering News (Mar. 5, 1990), 1155 16th St. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20036.
"Alternative agriculture" has been much in the news since the U.S. National Re- search Council CNRC't nublished a contro-
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versial report last fall hailing its promise. and large, says Hileman, a Chemical & Engineering News editor, it is not what its critics or its supporters claim.
Even the term "alternative" is a little misleading, since it conjures up images...