[Senator Pardek]

The best food comes from corporations, and the crappiest comes from "poor farmers".

Deal with that fact, and you'll sleep better at night.

It will be a great day in America when the last "independent" farmer is on welfare.

[independentmind]

Perhaps you can explain to me, then, why many of the oh-so-chic go-there-to-be-seen restaurants in Manhattan are constantly on the look-out for exotic ingredients from boutique farms.

[nunya bidness]

It will be a great day in America when the last "independent" farmer is on welfare.

To a certain extent they already are.

However, there will be much rueage when the last family farm is replaced by the likes of federally funded corps like ADM.

You know the outfit that just loves to shove frankenfoods down your throat when not giving plane rides to little boys to Cuba.

Me? I'll be okay. I've grown resistant to the Giros the Greeks keep trying to poison me with.