Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dan Conine <dconine@dotnet.com>]

My reply is to the article, not necessarily to anyone's views on this list,

"Michael Moon says money can be made in agriculture, and he opposes 
government subsidies to ranchers and farmers. ``The reason people don't 
make money is because they're not farming or ranching smart,'' Moon 
said. ``They're going into debt.''"

I think the faulty premise is that agriculture is something to make 
money. Most people will say "money is just a tool", and it is. It is a 
tool that allows people to disconnect from the commons by remote 
control. If the article would have said "there is increase to be made in 
agriculture", then perhaps we could begin to think in terms of future 
benefits not only to the farmer, but to the land itself. If we always 
think in terms of extracting wealth from the land, we will never be 
sustainable as a species.

Just food for thought.

Dan