Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Can't prove it but my own view is the system will break down irreversibly
before that evil end. All empires fall, and it's my aim to not be in the
way and end up underneath the rubble. In the meantime we find that
China-Mart  simply does not have the lowest prices at all, and often the
low prices go with inferior merchandise not worth any amount of money. I'm
glad you brought up the sick and dying cattle. I understand  this is esp
true of dairy herds. People would puke if they could see what's in their
milk or see the manure the crowded sea of holsteins stands hoof deep in
waiting for milking. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 10/8/2006 at 12:06 PM Dan Conine wrote:

>"The soul of the ploughboy ain't worth the soul of the paper boy." 
>-Wendell Berry, "What Are People For?"
>
>Well put, Laurie Ann. We can't compete with the Spectacle when it comes 
>to the hearts and minds of the children, but the problem isn't the 
>Spectacle, it's the competing. We are all in this together: humans, 
>birds, trees, fish, microbes. The proof that we are all connected is 
>already available, so why do our institutions still insist upon the 
>'sanctity' of certain parts of the ecosystem over others?
>I suspect it has to do with the fact that only humans can handle money. 
>The cows have been turned into dying workers in an ammonia factory, but 
>they can't organize for better working conditions or wages.
>I tried to explain it to someone last night this way: A grassfed cow 
>should live to 12-15 years old. The factory farm cow lives to be 4, 
>maybe 5 on the OUTSIDE, so what people are drinking in the stores is 
>milk from a dying animal.
>
>It's insane, but we will be the ones branded 'dissidents' and locked 
>away in Halliburton jails for 'crimes against the economy', and the 
>masses will cheer the Solution while they shop at "Always Low Prices".
>
>Dan
>
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