permaculture

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 1)
>> My view will not surprise anyone who has been paying attention: This
>> another expected turn of the dialectical screw in the emergence and
>> hegemony of industrial organic, in line with historical USDA goals. Toward
>> this objective, the agency is using the same Act it has used to subsidize
>> big agriculture and foster its monopoly control over every sector of the
>> food system. Crumbs are dropped along the way to deceive and pacify small
>> farmers. How depressing that so many are fooled. History repeats itself,
>> first as tragedy, then as farce.
>> --
>> Karl North -  http://karlnorth.com/
>> "Pueblo que canta no morira" - Cuban saying
>> "They only call it class warfare when we fight back" - Anon.
>> "My father rode a camel. I drive a car. My son flies a jet-plane. His son
>> will ride a camel."
>>  —Saudi saying
>> 2)
>> Agreed Karl, looks like another checkoff program that steals from the
>> small producer and benefits many others like industrial organic and folks
>> who like to move money around get paid and accomplish very little except
>> for enhancing corporate profits..
>> Rich Molini
>> Atlanta, Indiana
>>
>
> Attn: Steve
>
> Here is more in this thread:
>
> "Karl S North" <knorth@binghamton.edu> wrote:
>
> Ai, caramba, Grace. Your words only reveal how different your view of how
> the world works is from mine. There was no historical abuse because this
> checkoff program was designed to generate the outcomes that occurred in
> every sector in which it was applied - beef, sheep, grains, you name it.
> The controlling powers in the food system do not see the version in
> question as generic; they see organic as just another commodity sector to
> conquer and control, which they have pretty much already done. In its
> century of existence, the USDA presided over and fostered the most socially
> and ecologically destructive form of agriculture in history. There is no
> good in such an outfit to be made better.
>
> The problem is much bigger than a single agency of government. Just as
> half the electorate refused to vote for two slimy candidates, many small
> producers see our whole country as a system of legalized crime,
> racketeering by another name.  Louis Brandeis, the first Jew to attain high
> office, simply stated what should be obvious: one can have democracy in our
> country or one can have most of the wealth concentrated in the hands of the
> few, but one cannot have both. Why does it take someone from a persecuted
> minority to point that out? Why can't legions of highly educated Wasp
> liberals figure that out?
>

More:

Right, and brainwashed most everyone. One can't even think of a proper cure
as long as the diagnosis is wrong. This piece by Derrick Jensen gets to the
heart of it.

<http://goog_997326647>
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/22/one-does-not-
hate-when-one-can-despise/


-- 
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared