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  • From: smitty smith <cityhomesteader@gmail.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] An ‘agri-intellectual’ talks back
  • Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:09:03 -0400

All this doesn't take into account that most of these BIG growers are growing Fuel and feed for animals.
Not many are growing food for humans..We import 97% of our fruits and vegetables now for local super markets and big chain retailers when common joe buys his/her food.

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM, <mdnagel@verizon.net> wrote:
Great article!

Some of the comments are pretty good as well, though most seem to miss the mark.  ANY subsidies, to conventional OR non-conventional, potentially (if not guaranteed to) set the stage for disaster.  The intent might be noble, but eventually the corporate welfare queens will permanently stop the subsidy spigot wide open and push out all challengers, ones who may hold the best answers (like we here already know about).  The other troubling thing is that everyone is stuck in the ship-it-miles-away paradigm- this is hidden in the question of "how are we going to feed the world?" which is really only a way of perpetuating the control of food by the few (see the review of William Engdahl's "Seeds of Destruction" [http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11910 - three parts, this is the third part, which has links to the first two], which shows how insidious it all is).  Without plentiful cheap energy for transport there won't be any need for massive industrial growing operations.  Sometimes I think that everyone else is living on a different planet than I.


Mark Nagel
Everett, WA



Aug 22, 2009 07:38:49 PM, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

An ‘agri-intellectual’ talks back
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-08-14-corn-agri-intellectual/
Posted 2:24 PM on 14 Aug 2009
by Tom Philpott


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