Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

If you're thinking global market, let me point out that most of that rural
population still have to feed themselves with local production. And they
have a market nearby wherever there's a village and people who like to eat
occasionally. They don't need four lane highways to reach them, and they do
use animal transport where they have it. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/24/2007 at 6:45 AM Phil Bunch wrote:

>The people growing the stuff don't make much money. Their economic
>advantage
>comes from its small bulk/relatively high value. Since many areas don't
>have
>adequate roads to transport standard crops it can be brought to market in
>concentrated form infrequently. Where there are roads there is also a
>police
>presence and the crop is not grown unless the area is controlled by the
>rebels or paramilitaries.  It just is not worthwhile to grow normal crops
>since they can't get them to market. If there were adequate roads most
>those
>folks would not take the risks required to grow the illegal crops. They
>have
>families and the "bankers" they deal with make ours look like pussy cats.
>Their delinquency notes are printed on lead.
> 
>It's the bastards who finish the processing and do the international
>transporting that make all the money. They exploit two cycles of poverty,
>the primary producers and ultimate consumers. All driven by a set of laws
>originally meant to protect people. Go figure.
> 
>  _____  
>
>From: livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
>[mailto:livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ken
>Hargesheimer
>Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 6:14 PM
>To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing
>Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Ethanol from Coffee
> 
>The reason the farmers in South America grow cocaine is because that is
the
>most profitable crops to grow.  The USA supplies the market and they
supply
>the cocaine.  That is truly free trade.
> 
>If the US would get its rear out of there with its guns and posion
spraying
>on people and regular crops, they would not hate us so.  Use those
billions
>of dollars here in the USA to get people off drugs which would dry up the
>market.  So simple.
> 
>Ken Hargesheimer
>