🚀 go-pugleaf

Pseudo Escudo (Stan Rothwell) wrote:
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> hc23hc <hc23hc@artlink.ne> wrote 
> > David Kaye wrote:
> > >
> > > So, we should expect to see much higher produce prices in the future.
> >
> > There is so much monkey business in agribusiness, from additives
> > to defoliants, cosmetic waxing of inert, useless produce and megatons
> > of chemical manipulation of the food chain that it would be a blessing
> > to pay more for produce if on a widespread basis, it weren't so rotten
> > and produced in so many corrupt ways by gangsters who don't have to
> > eat the crap they're heavily subsidized to bring to market.
> >
> > The migrant labor issue's one small part of the almost total exploitation
> > of farming.  If more Americans were more involved in the growing and
> > harvesting of the lousy products, they'd be off their broccoli for good.
> > But what's it going to take to make that happen ?  Immigrants, legal
> > or not, didn't start the agricultural ball rolling into hellish decline.
> > Corporate "farmers" did.  Fighting about immigrants just buys them
> > more time.  If armchair immigration theorists cared as much about the
> > real craft of farming as they claim to in passing, they'd be taking
> > other, more effective action.
> >
> > Support accountable growers only.  Shop at local farmers' markets
> > for all produce and never at chain stores.
> 
> Sure, if you're willing to pay triple for a head of lettuce.


Like you care what I pay for lettuce in the free economy, Stan ...

Actually, most produce is probably less expensive at Hollywood 
Farmers' Market than at any Ralphs'; *good* produce certainly is.
Sundays, 8:30am-1pm at Ivar & Selma.  Produce so good, even you, 
stingy bastard, wouldn't mind paying for it.

Besides, Stan, why use that old "cheap vegetables" argument?

Your uninformed sniping's a load of cheap fertilizer.  Go have
yourself another double Happy Meal, you big fat kid.

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