>expansion - ALL of us have a relation to agricultural industry, farming,
>eating particular produce and boycotting particular political-produce
>(grapes, bananas) - slave wages, subsidization, genetic engineering,
>nationalized farming and the crisis of wheat, or beef, - waste, the
>environment, encroaching capitalism and
>cultural transformations, as communities are moved from local to
>large-scale farming, production, and so on.
Diane, and this is something all of us can do something about. I am
not saying that everyone should produce all their vegetables as my
wife and I do in our suburban backyard. But we could contribute to
it, and through barter, as we have done, expand the range of fruits,
vegetables, and berries that you can access.
I was asking just a couple of days what would happen to our economy
if people here in Victoria were to produce as we do in their own
backyards? All the trucks coming from California, all the gas saved,
but also all the jobs displaced...
Nice comment, Diana, I wholeheartedly agree with you on this one.
Michael
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