permaculture

[Marimike6@cs.com]

Here's an article I found to be well worth reading. Sustainable agriculture is under increasing pressure just to survive, due to industry practises that drive down the price of food to the consumer while increasing corporate profits, at the cost of driving up the price of remediating the land and in fact driving the small farmer increasingly off the land. The market cost of food today bears no relation to its actual cost of production, as the Mexican corn farmers undercut by American exports can attest.

http://www.geocities.com/northsheep/foodchange.html

I think we need to absorb these lessons and be aware of the larger picture. GM-ag is rampant now, and well on its way to becoming the predominant model for food production. When I get the chance I'll provide documentation. In eight short years it has approached the tipping point, where it takes over everything except your back yard garden. Not just in the US, Canada and Australia but wherever in the third world it is being aggressively marketed.

You may not be a radical by nature, but you should consider becoming one of necessity.

Mike Elvin