Market Farming

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There's another smoking gun to back up my point. Propagandists often claim
an organization is a "big tent" just to defend their inclusion in it, but
then tell people of a different opinion they don't belong in it. And
propaganda works only so long as inconvenient facts are swept under the
rug.  In fact, FB at the national level is no way the voice of agriculture
at the level of local market farmers, many of whom are working on viable,
sustainable ways of farming and living on the land. They can't support
opposite approaches to farming, support pesticide/herbicide profits on one
hand and also support Integrated Pest Management and chemical-free growing
on the other. So they follow the money and support big fossil fuel
industrial agriculture, and leave the rest of us out in the cold.  If they
are truly "big tent", and reflect all levels of opinion then they shouldn't
even try to take sides in such issues. Much less take sides on issues
totally unrelated to farming like unwed mothers.

paul & barb on the Continental Divide
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On 10/13/2002 at 11:59 AM Rick Williams wrote:
. Farm Bureau is
>local, county, state, national and international in its scope and
influence
>and is non-partisan, non-sectarian, and non-secret in character. Farm
>Bureau
>is the voice of agriculture at all levels.
>
>If you can not support this concept, then you ought not be involved. It is
>clear that there are many here who do not support such views since they do
>not support agriculture at all levels and should not be in a big tent
>organization such as FB.
>