Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>]

I would argue, however, that they're not OVEReducated, but UNDEReducated.  Brings to mind the Veep's recent comment on Americans' opinions (about the war); "So?"  Anytime, anywhere, anyone who is so certain that he has all the answers that he need not look any further or consider any other opinion, needs, in my  opinion, MORE education (maybe in the school of hard knocks).

 

Simplicity is often the result of much diligence, rather than the first thought that comes to mind.  In my Mechanical Engineering career we often used the phrase "We didn't have time to make it simple".  More time and effort in the design phase would have resulted in a better product, but management, in order to meet perceived market demands, pushed for release of the first design that "worked".  Granted, this example doesn't apply directly to the example, but I think it does communicate the idea that most concepts, including eating locally, require refinement over time.  If that careful consideration is not in evidence, consider it an unfinished philosophy.

 

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz

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From: Tradingpost

To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 9:45 AM

Subject: [Livingontheland] supermarket propaganda

Those overeducated fools. OF COURSE it's better to buy local, IF it's produced naturally and it's in season. Who said you have to eat locally now matter how much petrochemical pesticide and mechanization is used to produce it? Nobody, least of all the man they're ridiculing. They throw up a straw man argument. They ridicule people who drive any distance to shop for local food, ignoring the fact they'd drive that far anyway to shop the regular supermarkets. The supermarket people (Tesco in Britain) try to make "carbon labeling" so insanely complicated people will give up on looking for the right food. Of course you don't worry about such things if you're getting it directly from local, natural growers in the first place. Or growing it yourself.

Keep It Simple, Stupid

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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