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  • From: "JUDITH MCDONALD" <jammin03 AT msn.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Organic and us
  • Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:58:05 -0700

I must confess that I have been in Wal-Mart's garden dept this year! But only b/c my daughter dragged me there on a different mission.

No, other than some food and plant items there is very little at WalMart that is actually made in the states. Do a check on "offshore production". That clothing may say "Made in USA" but is actually made in a sweatshop in a free port on foreign soil. Oh no! They're not sweatshops anymore, so they say--LOL. At any rate, most of us could do without a great portion of what we consume. Advertising, i.e. brainwashing, is big business.

I am fortunate enough to live in a small town that does not allow "Box Stores". I buy locally as much as possible, although I do have to go out of town for some things that I can't get here. My fashions come from St. Vincent's or yard sales. I grow my food as much as possible and purchase beef from local growers. The box stores take up a big percentage of the consumer dollar. Where do those profits go? Who is benefiting? Employees all around are underpaid, so less & less is going into the economy of the United States. What they can afford is what WalMart is selling and so the circle goes round and round and the painted ponies go up and down. . . .cyclic excistence at its best!

If you listened to Mae Brussell in the 70s & 80s, then you know the #1 the individual is the multi-national corporations. I don't want to start a political hail storm, but look at the current war and tell me who is profiting. The war is between the "haves" and the "have nots" and the "haves" want an ever bigger piece of the pie.

Grow more food, plant more trees, get off the grid.

Judy


"The birth of that marvelous wish in your soul-the dawning of that secret dream-was the Voice of God himself telling you to arise and come up higher because he had need of you." Emmet Fox




From: Bevanron <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
Reply-To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Organic and us
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:38:06 -0400

I shop at Walmart several times a year. I don't like their politics and
the way they treat some of their employees, so I shop local whenever I
can, but I do sometimes go in there either because of the convenience of
making one stop instead of 4 or because they have what I can get
elsewhere (like little duckie pools at the end of summer).

Gene GeRue wrote:

>>All that said IMO when WalMart and Monsanto decide what can have the
>>"organic" label it won't be organic anymore.

I think the term means something far differently today than it did 10
years ago. It's just like the term Free-Range....which used to mean
"chickens running loose and not in laying batteries" but now seems to
mean "chickens running loose inside a chicken house".

>
>
> We need a people's revolution. Perhaps misusing the organic label
> will become the trigger.

Doubtful. The masses are poor. Poor people can't afford to buy organic
food-they grow their own if they eat it or they don't eat 'organic'.
Out west where organic foods are more trendy, maybe there will be a
revolution, but I don't see that happening outside of the wealthier
suburban areas in most parts of the country. On the other hand, money
talks. Hopefully the boomers in their SUV's can yell and stomp really
loud and be heard, if they can slow down long enough from bragging about
their new house and how many activities they taxi their kids to and fro.


>
> I am optimistic that truth will out. The Internet makes it easy for
> all of us to report what we learn. Big companies, including WalMart,
> are becoming ever more sensitive to public image. Do a search and you
> may be impressed with all that WalMart is doing to improve its image
> and, believe it or don't, improve the world.

I sure hope so. It's about time. In my little town, we are trying to
get WM to change their lighting policy to thwart light
pollution....unsuccessful to date.
Someone mentioned "made in the USA". I seem to recall that that's what
made Sam Walton's stores the mega giants that they are. Somewhere along
the line, they dropped that logo and started buying overseas, but
originally, they did promote USA products.

Bev

--
erthnsky AT bellsouth.net BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
34.498N 85.076W

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