Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Hit the nail on the head, Mark. I think you're right about revolutions -
the political, violent ones - and you named one of my basic tenets from
Bucky Fuller. We won't change corporate agribusiness head on. We make it
obsolete by growing the alternative food distribution system with millions
of small growers producing sustainably and either growing our own or
selling locally direct, bypassing most or all the middlemen. 

THIS is revolutionary. But there's an interesting coincidence to all this.
Growing local is a good defense to cut down our vulnerability to food
inflation or shortages or fossil fuel problems, and at the same time it
cuts down our support for the agribusiness machine. With fewer grocery
buyers, the big commercial growers on welfare have fewer and fewer
consumers to push their garbage off on. They can't stay in business without
us. It's a win-win scenario, and one that requires no sacrifice on our part
- just foresight and determination. 

That is why we push Living On The Land. The ripple effect could spread far
and wide. Might call it "the first herd shot around the world" ... ;-)

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 4/29/2007 at 12:55 PM activism98201@verizon.net wrote:

>I'd like to add that I'm not a fan of revolutions, as they tend to merely
>replace those at the controls of power: the Bolshevik revolution is a good
>study.  As Buckminster Fuller said, you should look to obsolete a given
>system by coming up with a better one rather than looking to reform the
>existing (entrenched systems are nearly impossible to reform).
>
>
>-Mark Nagel
>Everett, WA
>
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>From: TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net>
>Date: 2007/04/29 Sun PM 12:24:33 CDT
>To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] happenings to get fired up about  growing
>
>
>"Now there's revolution,
>but they don't know what they're asking...
>Let's go living in the past"
>
>-- Living in the Past, Jethro Tull
>
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>On 4/29/2007 at 12:04 PM activism98201@verizon.net wrote:
>
>>Again, I believe that I offered a direction on this, and that's to NOT
>>purchase goods that travel long distances.  Food prices MUST go up NOW in
>>order to stave off attacks by the agri-fuel business.  Once they have
>>control of all of our farmland it's going to be too late (the only
>>correction is then likely from a major revolution with reallocation of
>>land).
>>
>>
>>-Mark Nagel
>>Everett, WA
>>
>
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