Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Dean" <andeanfx@midrivers.com>]

Paul, while I would likely define 'politician' a bit different than most you 
are so correct it doesn't matter.

Your last sentence bothers me.  If we don't guard the heirloom seed we are 
apt to be taxed on the food we grow to eat or eating their bar coded 
carrots.

Dean


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Regarding Corporate Power


> To bring this back on topic I contend that corporate dominance is nowhere
> more evident that in the food we eat and the farms that produce it.  But
> IMHO getting control over the politicians and corporations is DOA. They 
> own
> the country and the government. They are the government.
>
> Our employment and credit and spending are the lifeblood of the corporate
> state, and without all that it shrivels up. We're born in a corporate
> hospital under corporate health insurance, we're schooled to be good
> corporate citizens, we work for corporations, we buy houses built by
> corporations on mortgages held by corporations, we drive cars made and 
> sold
> by corporations, we eat food grown, poisoned, and sold by corporations, 
> and
> we die with corporate life insurance and get buried in a corporate box.
>
> My small contribution is to encourage those who aren't lobotomized yet to
> become more self reliant in more self sufficient communities, and live 
> more
> below the radar. They can't tax the food we grow to eat and can't put bar
> codes on our carrots ;-)
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
> On 11/18/2007 at 10:05 AM Marty Kraft wrote:
>
> > Here is a link to a way to limit big corporate dominance over our lives.
> >
> > http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm2002/02july-aug/july-aug02corp4.html
> >
> > Marty Kraft
> >
> > July/August 2002 - VOLUME 23 - NUMBER 7&8
> >
> >
> > C o r p o r a t e  R e f o r m  A f t e r  E n r o n
> >
> > 28 Words to
> >
> > Redefine Corporate Duties
> > The Proposal for a Code for
> > Corporate Citizenship
> > SNIP
>
>
>
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