[Market-farming] Food Security Starts at Home
Pat Meadows
pat at meadows.pair.com
Sat Dec 25 13:37:26 EST 2004
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:25:23 -0700, you wrote:
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>Of course the clueless Tommy Thompson didn't realize that there just haven't been any attacks on anything here since 9/11, and it's not because they've foiled them either. They haven't arrested and convicted a single so-called "terrorist". Not one.
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>But the article is on target, not because of "terrorism" but because the cost of fuel and food will keep rising. Since 90% of the cost of supermarket food is in fossil fuel costs, locally grown, naturally grown foods will soon become the only affordable food around. I think some on this list are well aware of the fertilizer and pesticide prices these days, not to mention gas for machinery and transport. All fossil fuel.
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Right. I agree.
Also, foot-and-mouth disease, for instance, does not require
terrorism. There are other possible major disruptions of
our food supply that do not require terrorism.
Pat
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