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Rahm Emanuel: Turn Eyesores Into Urban Farms (food deserts & the food justice community)
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| 7/26/11
Posted on 07/27/2011 6:10:57 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: GonzoGOP
3 days, not a few months.
But, it occurs to me, you could plant dent corn for ethonol on these plots - humans can’t digest dent corn, and who cares how polluted the soil is?
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posted on
07/27/2011 9:45:16 AM PDT
by
patton
(I am sure that I have done dumber things in my life, but at the moment, I am unable to recall them.)
To: majormaturity
Gardens are a visible “see, we did something about high food prices” answer.
The problem is where they will get the workers, since most people on food stamps are not willing to work or working under the table.
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posted on
07/27/2011 10:45:10 AM PDT
by
tbw2
To: GonzoGOP
Google urban food gardening and you might find it a bit uncomfortable to consider the possibility that this is all a set-up to establish subsistence food security.
These are already widely used in Cuba, Venezuela, Congo, Ghana, China etc. all supported through the UN.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=38691&Cr=democratic&Cr1=congo
Now don’t forget about that change in the farming laws that we were all up in arms about. You know, The Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510), which ramped up regulation of small farms. 0bama signed that on 1/4/2011.
This regulation will establish mandatory, science-based, minimum standards for the safe growing, harvesting, sorting, packing, and storage of fresh fruits and vegetables. This will be a monumental shift in food safety, says James R. Gorny, Ph.D., FDAs senior advisor for produce safety. http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm262031.htm
Almost sounds like it is going to be too costly and create food shortages due to regulation and farmers refusing to farm. Growing local will become the norm not the exception.
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posted on
07/27/2011 11:13:48 AM PDT
by
EBH
( God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
To: patton
3 days, not a few months.
They may last a lot longer than you think. No siege carried out by guerrillas could be air tight, so some supplies would get in. One Handymax size bulk freighter of grain slipping into New York would bring in 50,000 tons of grain. Distributed over the population of 8.2 million people that is 12.2 pounds of grain per person. Using wheat at 1,645 calories per pound that one freighter will feed the city for a week and some change. Use rice, with its higher calorie content, and the time gets even longer.
Then there are the dogs, cats, zoo animals, rats and such. Those will stretch the food supply for a few more days. Also it takes time for a person to starve. Even with no food at all a person can last a least a week before they can no longer function.
Leningrad is probably the best example of a modern city under siege. They got down to eating two slices of sawdust bread a day at one point. And despite the fact that over a million civilians died (in addition to over a million red army soldiers) the city did hold out until relieved 900 days later.
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posted on
07/27/2011 11:26:20 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: GonzoGOP
Oh, I didn’t mean until everybody starves to death - I meant how long until the grocery stores are empty.
After that, it gets interesting.
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posted on
07/27/2011 11:37:15 AM PDT
by
patton
(I am sure that I have done dumber things in my life, but at the moment, I am unable to recall them.)
To: Libloather
City now growing pot for the hood.
This is simply another way of taking property. Agenda 21
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posted on
07/27/2011 12:06:33 PM PDT
by
Terry Mross
(I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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