Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>]

> The real winners in the subsidy explosion since the mid-'90s have 
> clearly been the animal feedlot operators and the largest corporate 
> mega-farms. Suppliers like Monsanto and big grain traders -- ADM, 
> Bunge, Cargill, and Dreyfus -- benefitted handsomely as well. Small 
> and mid-sized growers depend on subsidies to stay afloat, sometimes 
> even in big years; meanwhile, big industrial growers thrive. Isn't 
> there a better system?
To ask "Who benefits?", one must ask if the benefits are really benefits.
Cheap food creates cheap people. Cheap people are a bonus to every 
manufacturer, every war department, every wage-slave retailer, and every 
authoritative entity in this Class War.

The big lie is that there is a "middle" class. There are those who exist 
because they work, and those who exist because they don't. The latter 
have myriad schemes to make the former believe they can "advance" to 
some magical middle ground where they can live somehow without being 
slaves to the moneyed class.

That's the "Hope" which gets us to vote for a lizard.
"You have to vote for a lizard, or the WRONG lizard might get IN."

Dan C.
Belgium, WI

On 4/15/2012 11:01 AM, livingontheland-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
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> Overhauling the Farm Bill: The Real Beneficiaries of Subsidies
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> It's one thing to support a family farmer. It's another to subsidize a mega 
> farm expansion that puts family farmers out of business.