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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
  • To: waldenfarm AT sprintmail.com, market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] how and where food is grown
  • Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 13:14:00 -0600


Sorry I don't have the reference at hand. They wrote about transnational
corporations. I'll try to locate it.


paul tradingpost AT gilanet.com

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
--Henry David Thoreau

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On 5/6/2004 at 11:32 AM Alex Mcgregor wrote:

>Where is this quote from? Sounds like good reading.
>
>Alex McGregor
>Walden Farm
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Tradingpost <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
>> To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>> Date: 5/6/04 3:43:36 AM
>> Subject: [Market-farming] how and where food is grown
>>
>>
>> “If economics is reconceived in the service of community, it will
>begin with a concern for agriculture and specifically for the production of
>food. This is because a healthy community will be a relatively
>self-sufficient one. A community’s dependency on outsiders for its mere
>survival weakens it. It is often unable to develop the policies it desires
>for the sake of its own members, since its survival depends on terms
>dictated by others. The most fundamental requirement for survival is food.
>Hence, how and where food is grown is foundational to an economics for
>community.”
>> --Herman Daly and John Cobb
>>
>> paul tradingpost AT gilanet.com
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