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[Livingontheland] The Wealth of the Land and the Power of the People, by Willie Nelson
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- Subject: [Livingontheland] The Wealth of the Land and the Power of the People, by Willie Nelson
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:16:53 -0600
The Wealth of the Land and the Power of the People,
by Willie Nelson, President of Farm Aid
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/willie-nelson/the-wealth-of-the-land-an_b_5990926.html
"The drive to extract as much value from the land as possible -- to maximize production without regard to whether we're exhausting the soil, to give over our farmland to Wall Street investors, to seize land held by families for generations for corporate profit -- bankrupts the land, our food, our nation and our future.
"We need to redefine wealth as the ability to make a decent living from the land and sustain it for the next generation. To grow crops for food and fuel while simultaneously enriching the soil upon which future crops depend. To support a family and a community. To work in partnership with nature to protect our health and the health of our planet. As caretakers of our soil and water, this has been and always should be the essential role of the family farmer."
- [Livingontheland] The Wealth of the Land and the Power of the People, by Willie Nelson, tradingpost, 10/16/2014
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