Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org>]

I remember that i read somewhere, maybe in Indian Givers or Changes in the Land that when the potato was introduced into Europe it provided the calories to create and run the factory system and brought people off the land and into the cities. I think that also contributed to the loss of the commons. Can't remember why it was the potato that did the job and not wheat which preceded the potato that allowed moving people off the land. I think the point was that the potato concentrated more calories for feeding the workers.

I'm not sure civilization was such a good idea. Or maybe it's like Ghandi said, we've never really tried it. Our egos seem to be in charge of "civilization", not wisdom. Eckhart Tolle in New Earth said that the egoic mind is the most destructive force to hit the Earth. Our survival requires a paradigm that we haven't tried yet. I hope we find it and apply it.

Marty

On Aug 31, 2011, at 9:00 PM, Emery Mitchamore wrote:

I think it is clear that grain, and it's ability to store "wealth", has been a major factor in the development of the stratified, unjust, and contentious civilization that we have today.

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.net

On Aug 30, 2011, at 10:28 PM, Pego Rice wrote:

A part of the issue at hand, that this article does not speak of, is that all this grain production is feeding the highest bidder, whether that is stockmen feeding cattle or speculators undercutting US wheat farmers.  Meanwhile the cattle, that can't really digest the grain, are farting like mad. Grocers who have too much bread are dumping it into the dumpster, and the very people who grow it, can't afford to buy it for dinner and are starving

 

Yours, Pego

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