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  • From: "Rick Williams" <mrfarm AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Organic industry vs. organic movement
  • Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:55:05 -0500


Robert Farr wrote:

> C'mon - of course the rural society has been poisoned. Farmers - and
> unpaved land - are looked on as the underclass, beneath civilized
> society ("I mean, those people have DIRT under their nails!"). The
> nouveau riche can't understand why folks in the country don't aspire to
> their lifestyle, so they denigrate it (or pave over it).

No wonder you come across so extreme. My goodness. Do the majority of people
here have such hubris?

> Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw in Vermont: "Welcome to Vermont.
> Now get the hell out." Same sentiment to those city folks - don't ruin
> our communities. But they're doing it any/way.

I suspect that they do want their money though, don't they?

Sincerely,

Rick Williams
Misty Ridge Farm
Dairy heifers and dairy beef graziers
Viroqua, WI

www.mistyridgefarm.com





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