Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>]

Investing in 'agricultural companies' is the story that created the 
later story in the digest: Monsanto.

The 'investment' mentality may be the paradigm we are used to hearing 
about and expect to follow demand and supply, but in a Depression 
secenario, there is only one 'investor', and that will be the government.
Unfortunately, the government won't be investing in gardens. The 
government will (maybe) stand up, take a look around for the biggest 
sources of food and distribution, and put tax money to 'work', using 
those systems that are already in place to 'feed the public'.

At least, that's how the government THINKS when it comes to 'serving the 
needs of the public'. They think big, and act big. In today's world, 
however, that would have all the success that the USSR's centralized 
food planning system did and result in starvation. The reason I think so 
is because of the lack of oil to support the centralized system.

So, we already see what's coming; it's been done before and failed and 
the way people dealt with it was to have their gardens in secret, and 
when the government failed, they still had their own gardens.

We need to continue what we have been doing on this list: growing our 
own food as though there isn't any other food, and as though money isn't 
going to be around to buy 'products'.

Perhaps I am too optimistic that I will get to live through the coming 
disaster. I don't know, but it makes the saying "be the change you wish 
to see in the world" a little more heartening when we already see the 
change coming around to where we already are.

Just in case my predictions aren't credentialed enough because I didn't 
go to college, (I got drunk in the Navy instead) here's something from 
the rest of the world that so graciously came from the 'other list'...
> International experts foresee collapse of U.S. economy
https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/globalnetnews-summary/2008-03/msg00072.html

Good luck with that 'future' thing.

Dan C.

> He just doesn't get it - investing in those kinds of companies doesn't plant one more potato. 
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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>
> Could we really run out of food?
> http://finance.sympatico.msn.ca/Investing/JonMarkman/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=6424206
>
>
> Biofuel production, poor harvests and emerging nations' growing appetites are 
> emptying the world's pantry, sending prices soaring. It's a good time to 
> invest in agricultural stocks.
> By Jon Markman
> March 06, 2008