Seems to me we just had a discussion about unrealistic fears... :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/7/2011 1:01 AM, Jan Steinman wrote:
>> From: Chuck Norcutt<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> You forgot to quote the part that I've been eating it my entire
>> life and, AFAIK, it's never made me sick.
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> I guess the minimum-wage-serf cooked it real well (or he was real
> healthy) after he spit on YOUR hamburger, Chuck! :-)
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> ---------------- The small organic farm greatly discomforts the
> corporate/industrial mind because the small organic farm is one of
> the most relentlessly subversive forces on the planet. Over centuries
> both the communist and the capitalist systems have tried to destroy
> small farms because small farmers are a threat to the consolidation
> of absolute power. Thomas Jefferson said he didn’t think we could
> have democracy unless at least 20% of the population was
> self-supporting on small farms so they were independent enough to be
> able to tell an oppressive government to stuff it. It is very
> difficult to control people who can create products without
> purchasing inputs from the system, who can market their products
> directly thus avoiding the involvement of mercenary middlemen, who
> can butcher animals and preserve foods without reliance on industrial
> conglomerates, and who can’t be bullied because they can feed their
> own faces. -- Eliot Coleman :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
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