Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[paul@oneseedling.com]

All so true, but the problem is that if you drive a car, live in any
structure other than materials close at hand, eat anything other than what
you grow. use a computer or wear clothes other than what you make from
scratch, you support all of these corperate controls. Thems the facts
folks. Paul the Skeptic

>
> 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:
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>>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:
>>
>>>
>>> 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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