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  • From: "GlobalCirclenet" <webmaster AT globalcircle.net>
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Cc: newhomestead AT yahoogroups.com, nmgreens AT yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: Organic industry vs. organic movement
  • Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 07:48:49 -0600



Mr. Farr's statements are backed up by facts. Here is just a sample.

Small towns suffer from decline in farming
http://news.mpr.org/features/200107/09_haega_smalltowns1/

" In 1940, there were more than six million farms nationwide and more than
30 million people living on or near farms. Now, 60 years and many
technological advances later, the number of farms has dropped by two-thirds
to two million, and the farm population is down to just one-fifth of its
peak, at slightly over six million"

http://www.cfra.org/
"The Center for Rural Affairs, a private, non-profit organization, is
working to strengthen small businesses, family farms and ranches, and rural
communities"
Also http://www.cfra.org/newsletter/corporate_farming_notes.htm


paul & barb - on the continental divide
http://globalcircle.net

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On 10/3/2002 at 9:22 AM Robert Farr wrote:

>Of course! there is destruction of rural society! Just look at the
>quality of people coming to replace the farm community - sub/urban
>mommies in their mini-vans, speeding on country roads; up-tight necktied
>dads hurrying through the countryside to a job 90 minutes away. The
>rural community becoming a bedroom community. The friendliness - a nod,
>a smile, a wave - disappearing or already gone. All the money leaving
>the community - no longer begin used to support your neighbors, but
>spent in grocery stores with offices in different states. Out-of-state
>developers buying up farmland then not giving a whit about the pollution
>they generate, the eco-systems they destroy, the watersheds they ruin,
>the dark skies they eliminate with their "safety" lights.
>
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