Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

And in most industrialized countries such as ours corporate control of 
government is the dominant avenue of limiting our freedoms. Examples: 
Monsanto, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland. All the lobbying and campaign 
financing to cut regulations on corporations is bought and paid for by - 
corporations. Since their only mandate is profit for the vast wealth of the 
owners, our freedoms to work where we please, buy what we please from whom we 
please, say what we please, and live where we please are all limited by 
corporate dictates we have no voice or vote in whatsoever. It's the feudalism 
of the modern age.

Want to sell raw milk? Want to make enough money to live on? Want safe, 
effective medicine? Want to avoid GMOs next door to your farm? Want 
unpolluted air and water? Want safe food? Want to bring back good paying jobs 
from China, allow unions, and stop the CEO of Wal-Mart from getting 900 times 
the pay of a checkout "associate"? Want to stop development from eating up 
good farmland? Want to stop poisoning field and orchard workers with 
pesticides? Want to criticize companies in public without being sued for 
"commercial disparagement"? Want fishermen and shrimpers on the Gulf coast to 
enjoy good livelihoods? The list goes on and on. In every case, corporate 
profit denies us these rights and bought politicians back them up.

Nowhere is corporate control more evident than in agriculture. But I can grow 
a lot of good food on a small patch they wouldn't find profitable. And sell 
direct to customers without corporate processors, distributors, and chain 
stores getting in between me and them and ruining my produce.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 6/24/2010 at 2:47 AM paul@oneseedling.com wrote:

>Have you ever tried living in another country? If so, then you know
>the true value of what little ffreedoms we do have left. Standard of
>living and infant mortality don't mean squat if you have limited
>freedoms.
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On Jun 23, 2010, at 10:21 PM, "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
>wrote:
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>>
>> Hoewever, statistically several other countries have a higher
>> standard of living, lower infant mortality, better health care,
>> shorter work hours, and more paid holidays. Our country may be way
>> better for some, but not for the vast majority of us. Americans of
>> course won't believe that because they know this is the greatest
>> country that ever was. But we can love our native land without all
>> the false patriotic hype we're fed. I'm esp attached to the 4
>> Corners region where I've settled for ten years. The sense of place
>> is part of us. In spite of it all I'm glad to be here.
>>
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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>> On 6/23/2010 at 7:10 PM paul@oneseedling.com wrote:
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