To: Dane
Also IIRC, the % of household income that goes to purchasing food is way down in the last 50 years and the choices of food to the American consumer have skyrocketed all due to those considered evil by some, farmers.
Mechanization and better transport technologies. Pedro isn't delivering a bushel of apples to the market on his mule anymore.
17 posted on
06/21/2006 5:00:43 AM PDT by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: taxed2death
Mechanization and better transport technologies. Pedro isn't delivering a bushel of apples to the market on his mule anymore. Nope he's picking them. Of course you as a good patriotic American could go to your local apple farm and apply for a job as a picker there.
18 posted on
06/21/2006 5:14:23 AM PDT by
Dane
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