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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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