Posted on 02/08/2009 12:39:11 PM PST by jazusamo
You probably didn't live in a rural town and get to watch it die a slow death, while large farms with huge tax subsidies and congressmen in their pockets took over.
The idea that our food supply is in the hand of a few people who only care about the money it brings in, rather then the land and their communities should concern you.
There was a reason for the orchestrated farm crisis of the 70’s, and it wasn't that family farms were doing a bad job, it was because some people saw an oportunity to make a lot of money on food, and roled over rural people who didn't have the money to buy congressmen.
I heard someone taking a hunter to task for “Commiting Murder” once. I asked them if I commited murder when I took out the tracktor and cultivated a field, killing cute little mice, moles and voles in the process. There really was not an answer to that question.
Thank you for being out working hard to help feed America on a nice day.
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