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To: Uncle Miltie
Since the marginal farming land is currently coming at the edges of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, organic agriculture's advance is destroying the Amazon rainforest.

You know that over 80 percent of cleared rainforest land is used to grow coffee, sugar beets for animals, and sugar cane - right?

Genius.

8 posted on 06/18/2014 3:46:02 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

Any one of which is there because it is gown inefficiently and organically somewhere else. Genius.


17 posted on 06/18/2014 4:53:36 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Radicalized via the Internet)
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To: Talisker

Most of my friends here in Maine have vegetable gardens and know how to can and preserve what we grow.

As an old timer told me; “Growing food is like growing money”

Do you know where your food comes from? What happens when the shipping costs double, and that steak or chop triples in price? What happens when a disease wipes out half the country’s wheat crop because one of the five strains of seed we use becomes infected? What happens when the government and the agro-businesses decide that you can’t have potatoes anymore?

Maine is leading the county in new small farm starts.
It’s because there is a healthy demand for clean healthy food and a desire to keep our food dollars here in the state.
(Explains why the FDA just opened it’s third office in the state)


18 posted on 06/18/2014 4:58:21 PM PDT by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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