Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <boxwood@nelsoncable.com>]

> Talk about a sick society ... It didn't used to be this way, folks. Why the
> change that's destroying people? Diet and lifestyle has everything to do
> with how we live on the land, or live in artificial environments eating
> plastic food.
>
> paul

But you're preaching to the choir here, Bro. To us that's the *bad* 
news. To those who track and shape policy, I'm afraid that a $1 trillion 
boost to the GDP (in terms of pharmaceuticals, high-tech medical 
interventions, etc.) is the *good* news.

I've heard Sally Fallon (president of Weston A. Price Foundation) make 
the observation that the enormous loss of jobs in the farming sector 
*has* to be made up for in other sectors, and it happens that that 
decrease is almost exactly balanced by an increase of employment in the 
medical, health-care, pharmaceutical and related industries.

An implication is that a sudden outbreak of perfect health would be a 
*disaster* for the enonomy.

~Harvey

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Harvey in northern Va
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"How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used."  
~Wendell Berry