Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["R. Follette" <marketgardener@thymeforewe.com>]

>>Kill ALL existing subsidies, NOW!

That won't happen, but let's suppose it could.  What about the subsidies 
that go to organic farmers who use them to get up and running sustainably 
years sooner than they would have without the subsidy?  I don't think all 
subsidies are bad.


Robin
Thyme For Ewe Farm
www.thymeforewe.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <activism98201@verizon.net>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" 
<livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] happenings to get fired up about growing


Unfortunately increased gasoline prices are likely going to result in the 
LOSS of farmland with respect to it producing food :-(

Small farmers will shift over to ethanol/biofuel crops only to ultimately be 
bought up by the big agri-fuel businesses.  Result?  Loss of food crops 
(which would take years to reestablish in the wake of fuel crop production) 
and the loss of local control of "farmland" (now in the hands of absentee 
owners.

We've got to stress the need to reject the consumption of food that's 
shipped from far away (which is heavily subsidized).  Only then will the 
value of local food achieve levels necessary to maintain farmland for food 
production rather than fuel production.

Kill ALL existing subsidies, NOW!


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA