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Re: The value of farming



karen@snowcrest.net (Karen McFarlin) wrote:
>In article <7685746QAA@csc.liv.ac.uk>, laurence@csc.liv.ac.uk wrote:
>
>> It looks as if you chaps are living in the past.  In this modern era
>> of supermarkets, are farms really necessary?  Think of all the land
>> they waste that could be used to build homes for the homeless, etc.
>
>There is a connection between agriculture and homelessness and
>unemployment. In the United States it's called the "Corporate Farm".
>Industrial farming has displaced hundreds of thousands of people. The
>decline of the factory economy accounts for even more.
>
>Most of the city people I know would starve in the country.
>
>Robert

 Frankly, I feel that farms are far more neccessary than (for example) 
golf courses. Just think of all of the homeless folks you could build 
homes for on all of those useless golf courses, selfishly kept only for a 
few bourgeous types in loud bermuda shorts to drive three wheel carts 
around in while tossing little balls (and occasional bags of unusual 
flimsey clubs) into artificial ponds while bellowing obscenities. Besides 
when the Corporate Demiurges lay waste the midwest and deplete the 
Ogalala Aquifer (thus rendering irrigation more expensive by an unknown 
factor), when all of this hits the fan and is exacerbated by changes to 
the weather due to the greenhouse effect... What do you plan to eat? 
Remember you just turned all of the farmsteads over to "homeless people". 
    I've been homeless (it wasn't nice at all) and I would dearly love to 
have a farm (indeed I intend to); but, I want it as a farm, not as a 
internment camp for social misfits. I wish to grow food and herbs 
organically as well as run some livestock on. One of them golf courses 
would do nicely, I could raise trout in the swimming pool and turn the 
country club restaurant into a church for our religion. 
    But the farms? Let 'em alone, we need "em and the folks who grow 
crops on 'em, who else will preserve the ways of our forefathers for our 
decendants but hard working farming folk!   Bella




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