Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Bobby G <bobbyg53211@yahoo.com>]

--- livingontheland-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

(paraphrasing the storyline) "My God(ess), we do have
to get food to the people." That has to be part of the
meaning of sustainability.  But a Farm Bill "reform"
which merely puts more food in the food pantries is
not much of a step toward resolving the impending
sustainability crisis.  

I've run a food pantry, in Milwaukee, and I'll say
this: Life in food pantry lines is not much of a life.
 What has to be undertaken is a thorough, complete
change in the whole way of life in America/the
industrial world such that people can sustain
themselves through their own work applied to some
patch of soil somewhere. 
 
No, I don't see such sweeping change in the pending
Farm Bill; it doesn't move us toward having 50,000,000
farmers as Rich Heinberg suggests we need. 
 
b.g. 


      
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