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That article would flunk Sophomore Composition for run-on sentences and
wordiness, but does make some points. What it does not explore is the
potential for grow-your-own food locally. It sees two alternatives only.
However, local markets and local gardens cannot be taken over by
agribusiness cashing in on the organic movement. Growing your own and
trading with neighbors has a real political and economic impact on the
system. And they can't pass a law against that.

herb@largocreekfarms.com

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On 1/27/2004 at 7:16 AM Marimike6@cs.com wrote:

>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
>
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